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Vitamin D deficiency in patients with cluster headache: a preliminary study

Overview of attention for article published in The Journal of Headache and Pain, July 2018
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Title
Vitamin D deficiency in patients with cluster headache: a preliminary study
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The Journal of Headache and Pain, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s10194-018-0886-7
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Jong-Hee Sohn, Min-Kyung Chu, Kwang-Yeol Park, Hong-Yup Ahn, Soo-Jin Cho

Abstract

Cluster headache is famous for attacks with seasonal and diurnal periodicity. This diurnal and seasonal variation might be related to sunlight and vitamin D metabolism. We investigated the serum vitamin D levels in patients with cluster headache. We enrolled patients with cluster headache and age- and sex-matched migraineurs and normal controls. From October 2016 to March 2018, non-fasting serum 25(OH)D concentrations were measured using a chemiluminescent immunoassay. Vitamin D deficiency was defined as a concentration < 20 ng/mL. The study enrolled 28 patients with cluster headache, 36 migraineurs, and 36 normal controls. In the patients with cluster headache, the serum 25(OH)D concentration averaged 14.0 ± 3.9 ng/mL and 92.8% had vitamin D deficiency. There was no significant difference among the patients with cluster headache, migraineurs, and controls. In the patients with cluster headache, there was no difference in the serum 25(OH)D concentrations between men and women, cluster and remission periods, first and recurrent attack, presence and absence of daily or seasonal periodicity, and 3-month recurrence. In the 14 patients with seasonal periodicity, patients with periodicity of winter to spring had a trend of lower serum 25(OH)D concentrations than those with periodicity of summer to autumn (12.30 ± 1.58 vs. 16.96 ± 4.69 ng/mL, p = 0.097). Vitamin D deficiency is common in patients with cluster headache, but the role of vitamin D deficiency is uncertain, except for its seasonal influence.

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Unknown 31 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 29%
Student > Master 5 16%
Other 4 13%
Lecturer 1 3%
Professor 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 8 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 35%
Psychology 4 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 9 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 June 2020.
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#13,547,035
of 23,849,058 outputs
Outputs from The Journal of Headache and Pain
#855
of 1,417 outputs
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#146,059
of 297,960 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Journal of Headache and Pain
#20
of 35 outputs
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