Have migraines? You may want to keep an eye on your waistline
February 14, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Sound farfetched? Researchers are now making a connection between migraines and waistlines in some people.
In a presentation at the American Academy of Neurology Meeting, a conference where neurologists present study findings and discuss them with their peers, researchers said that young adults (from 20 to 55 years old) who had larger waist sizes had more migraines than their skinnier peers.
I don’t know how to take that. I have had migraines since I was a young teen. And it’s only been since I’ve been in my 40s that my waistline isn’t quite as slim as I’d like – and my migraines are actually getting better, although they haven’t gone away altogether.
According to this article, AAN: Migraines Linked to Size of Waistline, the presenter, B. Lee Peterlin, D.O. who did the study with Andrea L. Rosso, M.P.H., suggests, "losing weight in the stomach area may be beneficial for younger people who experience migraine, especially for women."
Interestingly, if you’re over 65 years, the extra abdominal size doesn’t seem to have any more effect on migraines and the fat also doesn’t seem to affect men any differently at all.
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