A Canadian population survey on the clinical, epidemiologic and societal impact of migraine and tension-type headache.

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  • W Pryse-Phillips
  • H Findlay
  • P Tugwell
  • J Edmeads
  • T J Murray
  • R F Nelson
چکیده

Trained telephone interviewers contacted 1,573 adults across Canada about the nature and frequency of headaches suffered by them or by others in their households. Using a table of pain symptoms and other characteristics abstracted from the International Headache Society (IHS) classification, the headaches were assigned to migraine headache, tension-type headache or other diagnostic groups. Of the households sampled, 59% had at least one headache sufferer in residence. The proportion of headache sufferers with migraine was 14%; with tension-type, 36%; and with both, 14%. Migraine headache caused more disability than tension-type headache, with nearly 20% of migraine sufferers taking time off work and disability lasting for a mean of 1 day. It is concluded that the current prevalences of migraine and tension-type headache in Canada fall around the mean of previous studies, that the IHS criteria can form a basis for diagnostic classification and that the functional impact of migraine has been seriously underestimated in the past.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques

دوره 19 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1992