Gepants provide benefit as preventive treatment for headache in young people

SAN DIEGO — In a small cohort of young people, use of gepants to treat headache led to some therapeutic benefit and led to few adverse events, according to a poster from the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting.
“There’s not a lot of evidence-based treatment options in a pediatric population,” Lauren Shin, MD, child neurologist and headache fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, told Healio. “This (study) is to show real world off-label use in more of an adolescent population.”
Shin and colleagues sought to assess safety and

SAN DIEGO — In a small cohort of young people, use of gepants to treat headache led to some therapeutic benefit and led to few adverse events, according to a poster from the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting.
“There’s not a lot of evidence-based treatment options in a pediatric population,” Lauren Shin, MD, child neurologist and headache fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, told Healio. “This (study) is to show real world off-label use in more of an adolescent population.”
Shin and colleagues sought to assess safety and