OBJECTIVE Headaches are common neurologic problems for children and adolescents. They are divided into two types: primary and secondary. Primary headaches include migraines and tension-type as well as comprise the majority of headaches. We detect the causes of headaches and their associations with demographic variables among children and adolescents. MATERIALS & METHODS This cross-sectional s...

background: headaches are one of the most frequent reasons for pain in multiple sclerosis (ms) individuals. characterization of headaches and delineating possible relationships with ms-related determinants can ultimately circumvent headaches. methods: in a prospective case-control study, 65 iranian relapsing- remitting ms (rrms) patients and 65 healthy controls were recruited during patients’ a...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the association between vascular headaches and retinal microvascular disease. METHODS We investigated the cross-sectional association between headaches (migraine/other headaches with aura, migraine without aura, other headaches without aura, no headaches) and retinal microvascular signs (retinopathy, focal arteriolar narrowing, arteriovenous nicking; arteriolar a...

Headache disorders are highly prevalent throughout the world, and have a female predominance. More than 80% of women in the reproductive age group experience headache at some point, making it a common occurrence in pregnancy.1 The International Headache Society broadly categorizes headaches as primary or secondary. As is the case in the non-pregnant population, primary headaches (such as migrai...

Many medications that people take for migraine headaches can actually make headaches worse, if the medications are taken too frequently. When this occurs, the resulting problem is called “medication-overuse headaches.” Unfortunately, when medicationoveruse headaches occur, they can be difficult to treat. You can read more about migraine headaches and medication-overuse headaches on the next page.