Weight-Loss Surgery May Help Alleviate Migraines
Weight-Loss Surgery May Help Alleviate Migraines
Weight-loss surgery might help alleviate migraine headaches in morbidly obese people.
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" Weight loss surgery might help alleviate migraine headaches and morbidly obese people a small study from the University of Iowa finds more than 70% of patients who underwent the procedure didn't have any migraine three years after their surgery and nearly 20% had fewer and less severe migraine. Those who had their first migraine after becoming a -- had the biggest improvement."
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