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Current Pain and Headache Reports
Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports 6/2010

01-12-2010

Tension-Type Headache and Women: Do Sex Hormones Influence Tension-Type Headache?

Author: Jessica Ailani

Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports | Issue 6/2010

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Abstract

Most of the world’s population has suffered from a tension-type headache (TTH) at some point in their lives. The pathophysiology of this disease is not well understood, but TTH shares many features with migraine, leading to the belief that TTH and migraine may be on different ends of the same disease spectrum. There are many shared triggers between migraine and TTH, menstruation being one of them. Does menses being a trigger for TTH make TTH more like migraine, or does the role of sex hormones in TTH give us insight into the unique pathophysiology of this disease? This article will review TTH, concentrating on the role of sex hormones as a trigger for TTH.
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Metadata
Title
Tension-Type Headache and Women: Do Sex Hormones Influence Tension-Type Headache?
Author
Jessica Ailani
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
Current Science Inc.
Published in
Current Pain and Headache Reports / Issue 6/2010
Print ISSN: 1531-3433
Electronic ISSN: 1534-3081
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-010-0144-4

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