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Revisiting the connection between Solar eruptions and primary headaches and migraines using Twitter
Many internal and environmental triggers of primary headaches have been proposed, but establishing firm evidence for any of them has proved elusive. Geomagnetic storms, the disturbances of Earth’s magnetic field following Solar eruptions, have been proposed as one such trigger. In this study, we uti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5180106/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28008966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39769 |
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description | Many internal and environmental triggers of primary headaches have been proposed, but establishing firm evidence for any of them has proved elusive. Geomagnetic storms, the disturbances of Earth’s magnetic field following Solar eruptions, have been proposed as one such trigger. In this study, we utilized a vast amount of self-reported symptoms from the online social networking service Twitter in order to investigate a purported link between the level of geomagnetic activity and the onset of primary headaches and migraines. We analyzed 63 million keyword-bearing messages posted over the three years covering the maximum of Solar Cycle 24. No correlation has been found despite the large sample size. The simulation reveals that the significant correlation would have emerged even if only 1% of headache (2% of migraine) instances were caused by geomagnetic disturbances, thus placing very low upper limits on the prevalence of this trigger among Twitter users. |
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spelling | pubmed-51801062016-12-29 Revisiting the connection between Solar eruptions and primary headaches and migraines using Twitter Milojević, Staša Sci Rep Article Many internal and environmental triggers of primary headaches have been proposed, but establishing firm evidence for any of them has proved elusive. Geomagnetic storms, the disturbances of Earth’s magnetic field following Solar eruptions, have been proposed as one such trigger. In this study, we utilized a vast amount of self-reported symptoms from the online social networking service Twitter in order to investigate a purported link between the level of geomagnetic activity and the onset of primary headaches and migraines. We analyzed 63 million keyword-bearing messages posted over the three years covering the maximum of Solar Cycle 24. No correlation has been found despite the large sample size. The simulation reveals that the significant correlation would have emerged even if only 1% of headache (2% of migraine) instances were caused by geomagnetic disturbances, thus placing very low upper limits on the prevalence of this trigger among Twitter users. Nature Publishing Group 2016-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5180106/ /pubmed/28008966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39769 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Milojević, Staša Revisiting the connection between Solar eruptions and primary headaches and migraines using Twitter |
title | Revisiting the connection between Solar eruptions and primary headaches and migraines using Twitter |
title_full | Revisiting the connection between Solar eruptions and primary headaches and migraines using Twitter |
title_fullStr | Revisiting the connection between Solar eruptions and primary headaches and migraines using Twitter |
title_full_unstemmed | Revisiting the connection between Solar eruptions and primary headaches and migraines using Twitter |
title_short | Revisiting the connection between Solar eruptions and primary headaches and migraines using Twitter |
title_sort | revisiting the connection between solar eruptions and primary headaches and migraines using twitter |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5180106/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28008966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39769 |
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