Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Onset Headache Predicts Good Outcome in Patients With First-Ever Ischemic Stroke” We thank Dr Isabelle for expressing her interest in our article. In her comments, she speculates that the better outcome among stroke with onset headache could be related to higher proportion of posterior fossa ischemic stroke in this patient population. In addition, she also...

The aim was to characterize the individual and socio-economic impact of headache in a patient population from The Danish Headache Centre. This was a cross-sectional study using a structured interview, prospective headache diaries and standardized self-administered questionnaires using the ICHD-II criteria. Fifty-five subjects (12 male and 43 female) with a median age of 41 years and a median he...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate headache severity, and its correlation with clinical, cerebrospinal fluid, and neuroimaging parameters of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) patients, and its impact on outcome. METHODS This prospective observational study was conducted at King George`s Medical University, Lucknow, India between October 2012 and March 2014. Ninety-five newly diagnosed TBM patients underwent de...

Fasting is known as a migraine trigger for migraine. We aimed to study the impact of fasting The Holy month Ramadan on episodic

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of headache, its different patterns and associated symptoms in school children. METHODS A population based, cross-sectional, questionnaire study, followed by interviews of selected cases and their opthalmoscopic examination was conducted in eight secondary schools from different parts of Karachi to cover all socioeconomic groups. A total of 1211 school ch...

background: headache and depression are prevalent among general population. the aim of this study was to determine the associated factors of headache in elderly subjects with emphasis to depression. methods: all cohort of elderly individuals of the amirkola health study project were included. data regarding several clinical and demographic characteristics were provided via fill in quesstionnair...

The aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJD) and headache in children and adolescents. A prospective cross-sectional cohort study was carried out involving 93 children and adolescents (6 to 14 years of age) at the outpatient service of a dental school. All participants underwent a clinical examination involving Axis 1 of the Researc...

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 t...