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CEPHALALGIA
卷 35, 期 7, 页码 593-599出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0333102414550417
关键词
Migraine; headache; sensitization; pain thresholds; allodynia
资金
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [NIH K23NS070891, NIH KL2RR024994]
Background/Objective Between attacks, migraine is associated with hypersensitivities to sensory stimuli. The objective of this study was to investigate hypersensitivity to pain in migraineurs between attacks. Methods Cutaneous heat pain thresholds were measured in 112 migraineurs, migraine free for 48 hours, and 75 healthy controls. Pain thresholds at the head and at the arm were compared between migraineurs and controls using two-tailed t-tests. Among migraineurs, correlations between heat pain thresholds and headache frequency, allodynia symptom severity, and time interval until next headache were calculated. Results Migraineurs had lower pain thresholds than controls at the head (43.9?3.2? vs. 45.1?+/- 3.0?, p=0.015) and arm (43.2?+/- 3.4? vs. 44.8?+/- 3.3?, p<0.001). There were not significant correlations between pain thresholds and headache frequency or allodynia symptom severity. For the 41 migraineurs for whom time to next headache was known, there were positive correlations between time to next headache and pain thresholds at the head (r=0.352, p=0.024) and arm (r=0.312, p=0.047). Conclusions This study provides evidence that migraineurs have low heat pain thresholds between migraine attacks. Mechanisms underlying these lower pain thresholds could also predispose migraineurs to their next migraine attack, a hypothesis supported by finding positive correlations between pain thresholds and time to next migraine attack.
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