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A nationwide survey of migraine in France: prevalence and clinical features in adults
Patrick Henry,Philippe Michel,Bruno Brochet,Jean-François Dartigues,Sylvie Tison,Roger Salamon +5 more
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Age, gender and occupation were found to be risk factors for migraine and neither frequency and duration of attacks nor length of time of disease differed with gender, however, expressed intensity of attacks was greater in females.Abstract:
In November 1990 a nationwide survey of migraine was conducted in France on a representative sample of residents aged 15 years and older. The diagnosis of migraine was based on the International Headache Society (IHS) classification. In a previous study, we validated a diagnostic algorithm which classifies headache sufferers as IHS migraine, "borderline" migraine, possible migraine and non-migrainous headache. The overall prevalence of migraine patients with the IHS criteria in the present study was 8.1%; another 4% were classified as "borderline" migraine, which we in fact considered as definite migraine. Age, gender and occupation were found to be risk factors for migraine. Neither frequency and duration of attacks nor length of time of disease differed with gender. Expressed intensity of attacks, however, was greater in females.read more
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The Global Burden of Headache: A Documentation of Headache Prevalence and Disability Worldwide:
Lars Jacob Stovner,Knut Hagen,Rigmor Jensen,Zaza Katsarava,Richard B. Lipton,Ann I. Scher,Timothy J. Steiner,John-Anker Zwart +7 more
TL;DR: The calculations indicate that the disability attributable to tension-type headache is larger worldwide than that due to migraine, which would bring headache disorders into the 10 most disabling conditions for the two genders, and into the five most disabling for women.
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Prevalence and Burden of Migraine in the United States: Data From the American Migraine Study II
TL;DR: The prevalence, sociodemographic profile, and the burden of migraine in the United States in 1999 and to compare results with the original American Migraine Study, a 1989 population‐based study employing identical methods are described.
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Gender variations in clinical pain experience.
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A six-item short-form survey for measuring headache impact: The HIT-6?
Mark Kosinski,Martha S. Bayliss,Jakob B. Bjorner,John E. Ware,W.H. Garber,Alice S. Batenhorst,Roger Cady,Carl Dahlöf,Andrew J. Dowson,Stewart J. Tepper +9 more
TL;DR: The IRT model estimated for a 'pool' of items from widely used measures of headache impact was useful in constructing an efficient, reliable, and valid 'static' short form (HIT-6) for use in screening and monitoring patient outcomes.
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Prevalence of headache and migraine in schoolchildren.
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Epidemiology of headache and migraine in women
W. E. Waters,P. J. O'Connor +1 more
TL;DR: During a survey of a defined community, 2,933 women aged 20 to 64 years were asked standard questions about headaches and overall, 78·7% had headaches during the year immediately preceding the survey and this proportion decreased significantly with age.