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Nutritional intervention may improve migraine severity: a pilot study
Costa et. al (2019) investigated whether nutritional interventions focused on enhancing diet quality and healthy weight can promote improvement in clinical parameters of women with migraine. The study involved fifty-two women aged 44.0 ± 13.0 years receiving an individualised diet meal plan and nutritional orientation according to their nutritional diagnosis for 90 days. Anthropometric, clinical and nutritional data were measured once a month while diet energy content and macronutrients were checked using 24-hour dietary recall. Diet quality was assessed through the Brazilian Healthy Eating Index-Revised (BHEI-R), the Migraine Disability Assessment and Headache Impact Test version 6 were used to determine the severity of migraine, and the Beck Depression Inventory evaluated depressive symptoms. The result showed no changes in anthropometric characteristics, energy, macronutrients and fiber intake but the BHEI-R scores improved after 60 and 90 days of intervention, while the Beck Depression Inventory Scores and Headache Impact Test scores decreased after 60 and 90 days, respectively. The change in BHEI-R score was found to be negatively correlated to the migraine severity at the end of the intervention. In conclusion, Costa and the other researchers (2019) find the management of diet quality to be a good strategy for improving migraine severity regardless of nutritional status and weight change. [NPID: pain, women, migraine, females, macros, macronutrients, Brazil, depression, weight gain]
Year: 2019
