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Characteristic and Overlapping Features of Migraine and Tension-Type Headache
- Source :
- Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain. 46:461-468
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2006.
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Abstract
- Objective.—This epidemiological survey was conducted to investigate comprehensive characteristic and overlapping features of migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) disorders classified based on International Classification of Headache Disorders-II. Methods.—The stratified cohort of this study was composed of 2504 schoolchildren aged 10 to 17 years. A 38-item questionnaire inquiring all characteristic features of primary headache syndromes mandatory for classification was applied to selected 483 children with recurrent headache in the last 6 months. Results.—Migraine was diagnosed in 227 (47.0%) of 483 children and TTH in 154 (31.9%). Out of 125 children with definite migraine, 73 (58.4%) reported tension-type symptoms and 94 (68.1%) of 138 children with definite TTH reported migraine-type symptoms. Pressing pain (21%) and lack of aggravation of pain by physical activity (34%) were the major tension-type features in patients with migraine. Throbbing quality (43%) and aggravation by physical activity (30%) determined the main migraine-type features in patients with TTH. Conclusion.—The frequent co-occurrence of migraine and TTH symptoms suggests the presence of a common pathogenesis.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Adolescent
Tension headache
business.industry
Vascular disease
Migraine Disorders
Tension-Type Headache
Neurological disorder
medicine.disease
Central nervous system disease
Neurology
El Niño
Migraine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Epidemiology
Cohort
medicine
Physical therapy
Humans
Neurology (clinical)
Child
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15264610 and 00178748
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....79cbaba38cf1c577b8d90837eee8ccf3