Survey study, 2011
Do hormones affect types of headaches other than migraines?
This review suggests that hormones and menstruation do affect various types of headaches besides migraines. However, the evidence is not as clear or strong as the evidence for hormone-related migraines.
What they did
This article reviewed published studies on how tension headaches, cluster headaches, and other specific types of headaches change during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause.
What they found
The review found at least some evidence that hormones in general, and menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause in particular, impact several types of headaches beyond migraine, including tension-type headache, cluster headache, other trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, and hemicrania continua.
What it means for you
This review summarizes what other researchers have found but does not present new original research or specific numbers. The evidence for non-migraine headaches is less developed than for migraine. More research is needed to understand how hormones affect these different headache types.
About the study
- Original title
- Sex hormones and primary headaches other than migraine
- Authors
- Lieba-Samal D, Wöber C
- Journal
- Current pain and headache reports
- Year
- 2011
- Study design
- Survey study
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.1007/s11916-011-0211-5
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