Sunday, November 29, 2020

Later school start may reduce migraines for high school students, study says - UPI.com

Later school start may reduce migraines for high school students, study says - UPI.com
"Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Starting the school day later could aid high school students with migraine headaches, a study published Wednesday journal Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain.
Subjects whose school day started prior to 8:30a.m. reported more migraines days -- averaging 7.7 per month -- than those who began later, who had nearly three fewer headache days, said researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
The researchers attributed the results in part to the natural body clock of high school students, which tend to favor late-to-bed, early-to-rise habits.
...She noted that between 8% and 12% of adolescents suffer from migraines...Read all.

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