{"id":225148,"date":"2025-11-15T00:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/unusual-days-signal-rising-migraine-risk"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:21:21","slug":"unusual-days-signal-rising-migraine-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/unusual-days-signal-rising-migraine-risk","title":{"rendered":"Unusual days signal rising migraine risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unusual-days-signal-rising-migraine-risk3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvard Medical School researchers report that higher day-to-day \u201ctrigger surprisal\u201d scores were associated with migraine attacks over the next 12 and 24 hours. In this cohort, higher surprisal scores aligned with greater odds of a headache attack, even after accounting for recent headache history and fluctuations in daily experience.<\/p>\n<p>Migraine management often revolves around trying to identify and control conditions that might trigger them. From food and drink and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/environmental+exposures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental exposures<\/a> to physiological and psychological stressors, it is a crowded landscape of potential trigger suspects. Individuals attempting to match <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/migraine\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">migraine<\/a> attack timing to these suspected triggers rely on memory and a self-selected list of candidates rather than controlled experimental designs.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2841237\" target=\"_blank\">Information-Theoretic Trigger Surprisal and Future Headache Activity<\/a>,\u201d published in <i>JAMA Network Open<\/i>, researchers conducted a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cohort+study\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cohort study<\/a> to evaluate the association between surprise and future <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/headache\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">headache<\/a> attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Medical School researchers report that higher day-to-day \u201ctrigger surprisal\u201d scores were associated with migraine attacks over the next 12 and 24 hours. In this cohort, higher surprisal scores aligned with greater odds of a headache attack, even after accounting for recent headache history and fluctuations in daily experience. Migraine management often revolves around trying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}