...Yang Zhang; Changling Li; Ning Chen; Jinghuan Fang; Mengmeng Ma; Peiqi He; Li He Introduction: Migraine and other types of primary headache are widely prevalent and are thought to have substantial economic implications on a global scale. Nevertheless, the precise prevalence rates in China exhibited...

...Yeon Hak Chung; Kyung-Do Han; Jin Hyung Jung; Soonwook Kwon; Eun Bin Cho; Junhee Park; Dong Wook Shin; Ju-Hong Min Introduction: Although the relationship between migraine and multiple sclerosis (MS) has been reported, the risk of migraine in MS and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD...

...Tissa Wijeratne; Huiliang Melissa Tang; David Crewther; Sheila Crewther Migraine is one of the most prevalent neurological disorders among all age groups including the elderly, but the incidence and prevalence of migraine tend to decrease with age. The clinical phenotype of migraine also appears...

...Andreea M. Slatculescu; Yue Chen Background: Migraines affect women more than men and originate from interactions of genetic and environmental factors. This study assessed the prevalence of migraines in Ontario, Canada and the effect of gender and stress on migraines. Methods: Our analysis...

...Valentina A. Andreeva; Léopold K. Fezeu; Serge Hercberg; Pilar Galan Background: The association between obesity and migraine has been established; however, it is unclear whether it varies by perceived stress within each gender. Methods: This cross-sectional study used data from the ongoing...

...Behnam Rabiee; Atefeh Zeinoddini; Ramin Kordi; Masud Yunesian; Payam Mohammadinejad; Mohammad A. Mansournia Background: Migraine as one of the most common types of headache is known to cause serious intervention with routine activities of affected individuals due to the devastating nature...

...Chieh-Sen Chuang; Cheng-Li Lin; Ming-Chia Lin; Fung-Chang Sung; Chia-Hung Kao Objective: Migraines are one of the most common neurological disorders. Dementia is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by slow progressive memory loss and cognitive dysfunction. This retrospective cohort study...

... population cohort. Case definitions for chronic lung disease (CLD), epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and migraine were developed using administrative data, and validated against medical records. We applied these definitions to estimate the age-standardized prevalence...

...Daniel Davis; John Gregson; Peter Willeit; Blossom Stephan; Rustam Al-Shahi Salman; Carol Brayne Background: Observational data have reported associations between patent foramen ovale (PFO), cryptogenic stroke and migraine. However, randomized trials of PFO closure do not demonstrate a clear...

... neurological conditions. Methods: We compared mind-body use between adults with and without common neurological conditions (regular headaches, migraines, back pain with sciatica, strokes, dementia, seizures or memory loss) using the 2007 National Health Interview Survey of 23,393 sampled American adults...

...Vlasta Vuković; Davor Plavec; Sanda Pavelin; Davor Jančuljak; Mira Ivanković; Vida Demarin Background/Aim: Population-based epidemiological studies about headaches, especially migraine, have been carried out in many countries. The aim of this study was to assess the 1-year prevalence of migraine...

... on the prevalence of migraine in a rural Nigerian population. Using defined diagnostic criteria, a neurologist identified 62 individuals among a group of 903 as having migraine, yielding a point prevalence ratio of 69/1,000. The prevalence among females was approximately twice the figure for males. In 80%, a first...

...Gretchen E. Tietjen Migraine, a common disorder of uncertain pathogenesis, is linked to ischemia in a variety of ways. In some cases the relationship is coincidental. In others, migraine may be causally related to stroke, although the mechanism of migrainous stroke, if not due to arterial...

...D. Sochurkova; T. Moreau; M. Lemesle; M. Menassa; M. Giroud; R. Dumas Two thousand three hundred and eighty-nine patients with first-ever stroke were registered in the population-based Dijon Stroke Registry over an 11-year period. There was a history of migraine in 49 cases (2%), with a majority...

...Mohammad Abdul Jabbar; Adesola Ogunniyi Background and Purpose: There is increasing evidence that the pathophysiologic mechanisms are different between migraine and tension-type headache. The aim of the study was to determine possible sociodemographic differences in Saudi Arabia subjects...

... classified using the Ad Hoc Committee (1962) and the International Headache Society (1988) criteria. There was a high prevalence of overall headaches in this young population. The results of the application of these two types of criteria to the same population showed for the most prevalent forms, migraine...

... to establish the prevalence ratios of major neurologic disorders in Kelibia. Prevalence ratios, age-adjusted to the WHO population, were compared to those of studies using similar methodology. Migraine prevalence ratios in Nigeria, Ecuador, and Kelibia were equivalent. Epilepsy and Parkinson''s disease...

...L.C. Turner; J.F. Rothrock; C.A. Molgaard Migraine headache may lend itself to epidemiological inquiry that includes disruptive serotonergic psychosocial behaviors. To advance our knowledge of the etiology of this neurologic disorder, measurable psychosocial behaviors that are correlated...

...Stephen D. Silberstein; Richard B. Lipton Migraine epidemiology presents methodological challenges, partially simplified by the use of the new International Headache Society (IHS) Classification. Most previously published migraine studies were clinic-based, which introduces bias since less than 5...

...Philippe Michel; Jean François Dartigues; Patrick Henry; Sylvie Tison; Sophie Auriacombe; Bruno Brochet; Catherine Vivares; Roger Salamon For general practitioners and in epidemiological studies, migraine poses diagnostic problems. It is a polymorphous disease, with diagnosis based on a subjective...