Podcast 597: Weather Can be a Headache

<p> </p> <p><strong>Contributor: Sam Killian, MD</strong></p> <p><strong>Educational Pearls:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One study found that patients presented with headaches more frequently when there was high temperatures and low humidity, while higher humidity is correlated to lower incidence of headache. Moon phases had no effect on headache frequency.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Canadian study looking at over 100,000 ED visits for headaches found increased incidence of headaches when there were higher levels of air pollution/particulates, like smoke.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yilmaz M, Gurger M, Atescelik M, Yildiz M, Gurbuz S.</span> <a href= "https://www.ajemjournal.com/article/S0735-6757(14)00977-2/fulltext"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Meteorologic parameters and migraine headache: ED study.</span></a> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Am J Emerg Med</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. 2015;33(3):409-413. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2014.12.056</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Szyszkowicz M, Stieb DM, Rowe BH.</span> <a href= "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19555607/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Air pollution and daily ED visits for migraine and headache in Edmonton, Canada.</span></a> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Am J Emerg Med</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. 2009;27(4):391-396. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2008.03.013</span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summarized by Jackson Roos, MS4 | Edited by Erik Verzemnieks, MD</span></em></p> <p><br /> <br /></p>