{"id":14665,"date":"2020-01-21T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14665"},"modified":"2020-01-21T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:35:42","slug":"migraine-may-be-triggered-2-days-after-fragmented-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sleep\/migraine-may-be-triggered-2-days-after-fragmented-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Migraine May Be Triggered 2 Days After Fragmented Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of people who get migraines are referred to sleep specialists to try to determine the cause. It makes sense, as migraines and sleep have long been linked through both research and anecdotal evidence. But now a new study has found that fragmented sleep\u2014that is, low sleep efficiency\u2014creates a 39% higher risk of migraine two days later.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Studying sleep and migraines<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A team of researchers in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital asked 98 adults with an average age of 35 to wear wrist actigraphs and keep a diary of their sleep headaches and other health habits for 6 weeks.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After 6 weeks, the team found that the participants experienced a total of 870 migraines. Even after adjusting for other potential triggers, such as stress, caffeine, alcohol and exercise, the researchers found that fragmented sleep played a major role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the correlation itself wasn\u2019t surprising, the timing was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both the actigraphy measures and the diary entries showed that there was a 39% higher risk of migraine TWO DAYS after the night of fragmented sleep. This is referred to as \u201cday 1\u201d and the day after fragmented sleep was referred to as \u201cday 0.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Sleep quantity and quality<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also surprising to some was that neither sleep quantity (6.5 or fewer hours each night) or quality correlated with migraines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSleep is multidimensional and when we look at certain aspects, we found that low sleep efficiency, which is the amount of time you\u2019re awake in bed when you\u2019re trying to sleep, was associated with [migraines] not on the day immediately following, but on the day after that,\u201d explains Dr. Suzanne Bertisch, a clinical investigator. \u201cFurther research is needed to understand the clinical and neurobiologic implications of sleep fragmentation and risk of migraine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people who get migraines are referred to sleep specialists to try to determine the cause. It makes sense, as migraines and sleep have long been linked through both research and anecdotal evidence. But now a new study has found that fragmented sleep\u2014that is, low sleep efficiency\u2014creates a 39% higher risk of migraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[808,693],"class_list":["post-14665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sleep","tag-migraines","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}