Alcohol and migraine: What should we tell patients?

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 177-184

  Panconesi, Alessandro ^a   Bartolozzi, Maria Letizia ^a   Guidi, Leonello ^a  

^a SAN GIUSEPPE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Alcohol consumption; Congeners; Hangover; Headache; Headache classification criteria; Lifestyle; Migraine; Serotonin; Serotonin release; Trigger factors; Vasodilatation; Wine

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DELAYED ALCOHOL INDUCED HEADACHE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; HANGOVER; HEADACHE; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE ALCOHOL INDUCED HEADACHE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TENSION HEADACHE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79955891149     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-011-0184-4     Document Type: Review

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