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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Feb 15;2:CD009665. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009665
Associated symptoms: symptom present 2 hours after taking study medication in placebo controlled studies
Intervention Studies Attacks treated Treatment (%) Placebo (%) Relative risk (95% CI) NNTp (95% CI)
Nausea
Sumatriptan 6 mg 9 1879 17 43 0.39 (0.33 to 0.46) 3.8 (3.3 to 4.4)
Vomiting
Sumatriptan 6 mg 8 1710 5 8 0.43 (0.29 to 0.63) 40 (21 to 1000)
Photophobia
Sumatriptan 6 mg 5 1324 26 55 0.49 (0.42 to 0.56) 3.4 (2.9 to 4.1)
Phonophobia
Sumatriptan 6 mg 5 1324 22 49 0.46 (0.39 to 0.54) 3.7 (3.2 to 4.6)
Any functional disability
Sumatriptan 6 mg 6 1455 39 73 0.53 (0.48 to 0.59) 2.9 (2.6 to 3.4)