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A weekly periodicity in the occurrence of headache was found in 53 patients with migraine and in 20 with tension headache during an observation period of four weeks. In the migraine group the frequency was highest on Thursday and on Saturday and lowest on Sunday–Monday, and in patients with tension headache it was lowest on Sunday–Tuesday and highest on Friday. During the observation period several climatic factors were recorded. After correction for the weekly periodicity a highly significant correlation was found in the migraine group between headache frequency, on the one hand, and atmospheric pressure and outdoor temperature recorded 1–3 days later, on the other.
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Osterman, P.O., Lövstrand, K.G., Lundberg, P.O.et al. Weekly headache periodicity and the effect of weather changes on headache.Int J Biometeorol25, 39–45 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02184436
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