Association between eating disorders and migraine may be explained by major depression

摘要: Objective The association between eating disorders and migraine remains unclear. Method We identified women with lifetime diagnoses of anorexia nervosa (AN) (N = 55) bulimia (BN) (N = 60) their co-twins from the FinnTwin16 cohort born in 1975–1979 (N = 2,825 women). Eating disorder major depressive (MDD) were obtained clinical interviews data on by self-report questionnaire. The compared unaffected unrelated same birth cohorts. Results The prevalence was 12% general female population, but 22% for both AN BN (odds ratio 2.0, p = .04). MDD high an (42%). strongly associated 3.0, p < .0001) explained migraine. highest (36%) found MDD. Pairwise twin analyses also supported clustering migraine, disorders. Discussion Women a diagnosis twice as likely to report history cohort; this relationship comorbid © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2014; 47:884–887)