Headache is a common symptom that constitutes a major health problem to all countries in the world. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of migraine and tension -type headaches(TTH), its associated occupational risk factors among Shiraz hospitals staffs, and to report on clinical characteristics of migraine and TTH with using the International Headache Society (IHS) diagnosis cri...

OBJECTIVE Characterize migraine and other headache disorders within a large population-based US military cohort, with an emphasis on the temporal association between military deployment and exposure to combat. BACKGROUND Little research has been published on the prevalence of headache disorders in the US military population, especially in relation to overseas deployments and exposure to comba...

OBJECTIVE To examine the incidence of headache symptoms consistent with migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) in children with anxiety disorders. METHOD Parents of children with anxiety disorders (n=27) and children without anxiety disorders (n=36) completed a headache questionnaire based on the International Classification of Headache Disorders (2nd edition) criteria. RESULTS Children w...

how to cite this article: nejad biglari h, karimzadeh p, mohammadi kord-kheyli m, hashemi sm. migraine types and triggering factors in children. iran j  child neurol 2012;6(2):33-38. objective migraine is a common problem in children and the mean prevalence of migraine in europe among 170,000 adults was 14.7% (8% in men and 17.6% in women) and in children and youth (36,000 participants), the pr...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and migraine are distinct clinical disorders. Apart from the characteristics of chronic and recurrent pain in nature, these pain-related disorders apparently share many similarities. For example, IBS is female predominant with community prevalence about 5-10%, whereas that of migraine is 1-3% also showing female predominance. They are often associated with many so...

Introduction: The aim of this review article was to analyze in details the mechanism drugs’ effects treatment and prevention a migraine attack, as well discuss hypotheses pathogenesis.
 Migraine attack agents: main agents for have an anti-nociceptive activity.
 Agents preventive treatment: β-blocker propranolol also has anti-serotonin analgesic activities, most drugs used prophylactic...

By Albert Yeung Types of Headache in Hypertensive Individuals More than 90% of people experience headache of some kind at least once in their lifetime. Many patients and physicians still believe headache to be a common symptom of hypertension. Pathophysiologically, a headache arises when the primary afferent fibers that innervate the meningeal or cerebral blood vessels are activated; most of th...

What makes sleep disorders and headaches highly relevant is the fact that both conditions highly increase the risk for each other [1]. There is a variety of sleep disorders that may comorbid with migraine and may increase migraines, but this relation is more profound in Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias (TACs) rather in migraine. Among TACs three particular headache disorders, paroxysmal hemicr...

A possible relation between migraine and epilepsy has been a matter of debate for many decades. Clinical, epidemiological and therapeutic similarities may be coincidental and are no proof of a common aetiological background. However, a genetically determined dysfunction of ion channels seems to point to a common underlying mechanism for both paroxysmal disorders. For example, mutations in the t...

A survey of 148 family doctors attending a continuing medical education migraine update lecture was performed to assess whether family doctors like to treat migraine and other common disorders and the prevalence of migraine. Doctors were asked to respond to the following statement using a five-point Likert scale (from 1, strongly disagree to 5, strongly agree): 'I like to treat patients with th...