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Early improvements in function with atogepant as assessed by the Activity Impairment in Migraine-Diary: Post hoc analyses of three randomized, phase 3 clinical trials of atogepant for the preventive treatment of migraine

Lipton RB, Gandhi P, Gantenbein AR, Dabruzzo B, Carr K, Stokes J, Duan M, Halker Singh RB et al.

Headache, 2026

Abstract

Objective: Evaluate early functional improvements with the preventive migraine treatment atogepant using Activity Impairment in Migraine-Diary (AIM-D) individual and activity limitation items, and complete improvement in AIM-D Performance of Daily Activities (PDA) and Physical Impairment (PI) domain scores assessed weekly during the first 4 weeks of three phase 3 trials.

Background: Patient-reported functional outcomes are critical for assessing response to preventive migraine treatments, yet analyses of treatment effects on function at early timepoints are limited.

Methods: Post hoc analyses assessed AIM-D data in three multicenter, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group, 12-week, randomized clinical trials in participants who received once-daily atogepant 60 mg or placebo: ADVANCE (episodic migraine [EM], 4-14 monthly migraine days [MMDs]; United States trial, December 14, 2018-June 19, 2020), ELEVATE (EM with prior failure to two to four classes of oral preventive migraine treatments; international trial, March 5, 2021-August 4, 2022), and PROGRESS (chronic migraine [CM]; ≥15 monthly headache days, including ≥8 MMDs; international trial, March 11, 2019-January 20, 2022). A separate activity limitation item was included in the daily eDiary to assess limitation of activity over the past 24 h. The percent change from baseline in each AIM-D item score and the activity limitation item score, and the proportions of participants achieving complete improvement (i.e.,…

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