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Ann I. Scher
Researcher at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Publications - 112
Citations - 11269
Ann I. Scher is an academic researcher from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Migraine & Population. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 101 publications receiving 9436 citations. Previous affiliations of Ann I. Scher include Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & National Institutes of Health.
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United States National Pain Strategy for Population Research: Concepts, Definitions, and Pilot Data
Michael Von Korff,Ann I. Scher,Charles G. Helmick,Olivia Carter-Pokras,David W. Dodick,Joseph L. Goulet,Robin J. Hamill-Ruth,Linda LeResche,Linda Porter,Raymond C. Tait,Gregory W. Terman,Christin Veasley,Sean Mackey +12 more
TL;DR: Pilot analyses supported the feasibility of brief chronic pain assessments suitable for national health surveys and use of electronic health care databases to develop data regarding trends in the delivery of pain treatments, costs, and effectiveness.
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Fluctuations in episodic and chronic migraine status over the course of 1 year: implications for diagnosis, treatment and clinical trial design
Daniel Serrano,Richard B. Lipton,Ann I. Scher,Michael L. Reed,Walter F. Stewart,Aubrey Manack Adams,Dawn C. Buse +6 more
TL;DR: Follow-up at three-month intervals reveals a high level of short-term variability in headache days per month, and nearly three quarters of persons with CM at baseline drop below this diagnostic boundary at least once over the course of a year.
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Caffeine as a risk factor for chronic daily headache: a population-based study.
TL;DR: Dietary and medicinal caffeine consumption appears to be a modest risk factor for chronic daily headache onset, regardless of headache type.
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Epidemiology and economic impact of migraine.
TL;DR: Migraine is a very common disorder, affecting about 11% of adult populations in Western countries, and its prevalence is highest during the peak productive years – between the ages of 25 and 55.
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Obesity and migraine: The effect of age, gender and adipose tissue distribution
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between migraine and obesity, examining separately the effects of TBO and Abd-O and found that migraine prevalence is associated with TBO in an age and gender-dependent manner, while men of all ages and older women have more abdominal adipose tissue depots then young women.