Objective To determine the prevalence, impact, and stability of different subtypes of headache in a 30 year prospective follow-up study of a general population sample. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Participants 591 people aged 19-20 from a cohort of 4547 residents of Zurich, Switzerland, interviewed seven times across 30 years of follow-up. Main outcome...

BACKGROUND Morbidity associated with primary headache disorders is a major public health problem with an overall prevalence of 46%. Tension-type headache and migraine are the two most prevalent causes. However, headache has not been sufficiently studied as a cause of morbidity in the developing world. Literature on prevalence and classification of these disorders in South Asia is scarce. The ai...

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...

BACKGROUND Existing criteria for the diagnosis of headache do not indicate which clinical features are most important to establish or exclude primary headache diagnoses. OBJECTIVE To determine the value of history taking in the evaluation of patients with primary headache syndromes. METHODS A MEDLINE search of English-language studies published since 1966 and a hand search of bibliographies...

OBJECTIVE Headache is one of the most common neurologic problems in children and adolescents. Primary headache including migraine and tension-type headache comprises the vast majority of headaches and are associated with marked incidence, prevalence, and individual and social cost. We aimed to assess demographic characteristics and to compare some factors related to primary headaches in childre...

This study, which is a part of the initiative 'Lifting The Burden: The Global Campaign to Reduce the Burden of Headache Worldwide', assesses and presents all existing evidence of the world prevalence and burden of headache disorders. Population-based studies applying International Headache Society criteria for migraine and tension-type headache, and also studies on headache in general and 'chro...

PURPOSE Studies of the visual evoked potentials (VEP) in migraine have yielded contradictory results. Several investigators suggested that VEP may be helpful test in diagnosis of a child with headache. The aim of our study was to compare interictal pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials (PR-VEP) in children and adolescents with migraine and tension-type headaches and to evaluate VEP paramete...

background: headache and epilepsy are two common chronic and recurrent disorders. headache may be a premonitory or postdromic symptom of epileptic seizures. objective: this study aims to evaluate the prevalence of migraine and tension type headache in epileptic patients. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional descriptive study, 100 patients with epilepsy who referred to the neurology clini...

Although the understanding of the pathophysiology and the pharmacology of migraine has exploded there are still many pitfalls that may occur in the clinical assessment and management of migraine. This may prevent the patient from receiving optimal treatment. A diagnosis of migraine may be missed in the presence of other headache types that occur more frequently than migraine. Also, migraine may...

As a group, headache disorders are painful and disabling, impacting the lives of people with headache across multiple domains and reducing their ability to be productive and satisfied members of society. The majority of work examining psychological approaches to headache has occurred within the two most prevalent primary headache disorders: migraine and tension-type headache. Recent epidemiolog...