The treatment of migraines and tension-type headaches with intravenous and oral niacin (nicotinic acid): systematic review of the literature

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Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2007
CRD SUMMARY: The authors looked for evidence about the effectiveness of niacin to treat headache. The limited, low-quality evidence found indicated that niacin might be effective for this purpose, though some patients cannot tolerate it. The authors concluded that more rigorous studies of niacin are desirable to ascertain its usefulness and side-effects for headache. This limited conclusion is likely to be reliable.
Epistemonikos ID: be0c32ea422c276c6af43ad6e9d58d71a87c6bc0
First added on: Jan 19, 2012