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TRIALS
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-11-71
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- National Institute of Health Research, UK
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Background: A recent Cochrane Review demonstrated the remarkable lack of reliable clinical trials of migraine treatments for children, especially for the two most prescribed preventative treatments in the UK, Propranolol and Pizotifen. Migraine trials in both children and adults have high placebo responder rates, e.g. of 23%, but for a trial's results to be generalisable placebo responders should not be excluded and for a drug to be worthwhile it should be clearly superior, both clinically and statistically, to placebo. Methods/Design: Two multicentre, two arm double blind parallel group randomised controlled trials, with allocation ratio of 2: 1 for each comparison, Propranolol versus placebo and Pizotifen versus placebo. The trial is designed to test whether Propranolol is superior to placebo and whether Pizotifen is superior to placebo for the prevention of migraine attacks in children aged 5 - 16 years referred to secondary care out-patient settings with frequent migraine (2-6/4 weeks). The primary outcome measure is the number of migraine attacks during trial weeks 11 to 14. Discussion: A strength of this trial is the participation of clinically well defined migraine patients who will also be approached to help with future longer-term follow-up studies.
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