Is being a night owl associated with higher migraine-related disability in patients with migraine?
Erkan Acar, Zeynep Özdemir, Pinar Yalinay Dikmen · 2026
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Erkan Acar, Zeynep Özdemir, and Pinar Yalinay Dikmen publish a 2026 study asking whether being a night owl raises migraine disability. Body clock preferences interact with sleep and pain pathways, making the question plausible. Two hundred migraine patients and a smaller healthy control group completed sleep and chronotype questionnaires.
Migraine patients slept worse than controls, and chronic migraine patients carried by far the highest disability scores. Chronotype distribution, however, did not differ between patients and controls. Morning types showed somewhat lower disability than intermediate and evening types, but the gap was not statistically significant. The authors conclude that clock preference itself does not track with disability. They instead urge sleep-focused care, especially for chronic migraine.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Erkan Acar, Zeynep Özdemir, Pinar Yalinay Dikmen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |