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Epidemiology of Migraine and Headache in Children and Adolescents

Author: Çiçek Wöber-Bingöl

Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports | Issue 6/2013

Abstract

Migraine and headache are global disabling conditions causing considerable individual suffering and impaired quality of life in adults as well as in children and adolescents. Therefore, epidemiological studies are essential to assess the scope of the problem. This review covers epidemiological studies on migraine and headache in children and adolescents published in the past 25 years. A total of 64 cross-sectional studies have been identified, published in 32 different countries and including a total of 227,249 subjects. The estimated overall mean prevalence of headache was 54.4 % (95 % CI 43.1–65.8) and the overall mean prevalence of migraine was 9.1 % (95 % CI 7.1–11.1). There is a lack of population-based studies from low and low-middle income countries. In addition, there is very little information about the prevalence of probable migraine and chronic migraine and no information about menstrual migraine in the young.

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Title: Epidemiology of Migraine and Headache in Children and Adolescents
Author: Çiçek Wöber-Bingöl
Publication date: 01-06-2013
Publisher: Current Science Inc.
Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports / Issue 6/2013
Print ISSN: 1531-3433
Electronic ISSN: 1534-3081
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-013-0341-z

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