Triggers for migraine attacks determined for individual patients

Migraine is the third commonest disorder in the world and ranks sixth among more than 300 diseases when it comes to the burden it represents. The study compared individual case analyses with the overall analysis for the entire study population. The surprising, but at the same time practical, finding: from the population of 326 patients who kept a detailed diary for 90 days, it was possible to identify possible migraine triggers in 87% of sufferers by performing personalized analyses.