Xiangyang Qiao

TL;DR: A population‐based survey was initiated by Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache to investigate the prevalence and burden of primary headache disorders in the mainland of China.

TL;DR: This picture of the status quo shows limited reach of headache services in China, and high rates of under-diagnosis and misdiagnosis in those who achieve access to them.

TL;DR: The questionnaire was accurate and reliable in diagnosing migraine, less so, but adequate, for TTH (sensitivity relatively low, false negative rate relatively high and agreement level fair to good), while the non-specific features of TTH do not lend themselves well to diagnosis by questionnaire.

TL;DR: Morbid obesity was associated with twofold increased odds of migraine in this Chinese men and women cohort of predominantly reproductive age and no association was found between obesity and migraine severity, frequency, or disability.

TL;DR: Of the adult Chinese population, 1.8% have headache at any one time that is of moderate to severe intensity in 1.4%, and 1.3% lose the equivalent of a whole day to headache-attributed disability every day.