They are powerful predictors of relapse.
Furthermore, subjective and objective indicators of sleep disturbances are predictors of relapse.
The goal of this study was to identify predictors of relapse in adult AN using a prospective, longitudinal design.
The choice of strategy of preventive therapy should be implemented depending on the type of MOH and identified predictors of relapse.
These, and older studies investigating rates and predictors of relapse in MOH, were conducted on non-selected populations of headache patients [5, 31, 40].
Background: Levels of expressed emotion (EE) in relatives are consistent predictors of relapse among bipolar and other mood disordered patients followed naturalistically.
In a recent publication, Rossi et al. [42] evaluated the rates and predictors of relapse after successful drug withdrawal in a previously studied population of simple MOH patients with migraine as primary headache.
To report the long-term outcome of the treatment of refractory ophthalmic Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) with rituximab (RIT), including rates of relapse, predictors of relapse, and results of repeat treatment.
Predictors of relapse included: the BP subtype of AN, severity of checking behaviors at pre-treatment, decrease in motivation to recover during treatment, and lower motivation to recover at post-treatment.
A binary logistic regression analysis was performed and three variables emerged as significant predictors of relapse: years with more than eight migraine days per month (OR = 1.57, p = 0.01), higher frequency of migraine attacks after drug withdrawal (OR = 1.48, p = 0.04), and a greater number of previous preventive treatments (OR = 1.54, p = 0.01).
The frequency of the primary headache disorder, ergotamine overuse and pre-treatment disability as measured by MIDAS were all found to be predictors of relapse (the reported OR values and CIs actually raise some question marks over the statistical interpretation of the results).
