OBJECTIVE To collect and analyse epidemiological data on childhood headache in the Hong Kong community. DESIGN Questionnaire study. SETTING Three primary schools, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Two thousand, one hundred and twenty pupils from 2156 replied to the questionnaire survey. One hundred and twenty-four pupils who were identified to have suspected recurrent headache were invited to a fol...

Migraine and tension type headache are the most common disabling primary headache disorders. Epidemiological studies have documented their high prevalence and high socioeconomic and personal impacts. According to recent data, migraine ranks as the third most prevalent disorder and seventh-highest specific cause of disability worldwide. Tension-type headache has lifetime prevalence in the genera...

Neurotrophic factors (NF) are involved in pain regulation and a few studies have suggested that they may play a pathophysiological role in primary headaches. The aim of this study was to investigate NF levels in patients with tension type headache (TTH). We carried out a cross sectional study including 48 TTH patients and 48 age and gender matched controls. Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventori...

Pupil diameter was measured in darkness and in dull and bright illumination in 39 migrainous patients and in 15 tension headache sufferers during headache. In 21 migrainous patients, measurements were repeated during the headache-free interval. Mean pupil diameter was smaller in patients with common migraine at the time of examination than in 20 nonheadache control subjects, and smaller on the ...

Background: Tension-type headache is frequently reported by the patients.
 Objective: The purpose of present study was to see status thyroid hormones among chronic tension type Methodology: This conducted in Department Neurology at Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh. subjects consisted patients presented with primary disorders.
 Result: Among 21.0% had sub-type TTH. Out 42 tensi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Headache is a common health problem, which may present with neurological diseases and other chronic diseases, and has an adverse effect on the emotional status. We think that headache is a common disease in asthmatic patients. This study aims to evaluate the presence of headache and risk factors in patients with asthma. METHODS Ninety-three patients with asthma and 58...

AIM To evaluate the association between tension-type headache and migraine with sleep bruxism (SB). BACKGROUND The association between SB and headaches has been discussed in both children and adults. Although several studies suggested a possible association, no systematic analysis of the available published studies exists to evaluate the quantity, quality, and risk of bias among those studies...

• Objective: To review the classification, diagnosis, and management of chronic daily headache (CDH). • Methods: Qualititative assessment of the literature. • Results: Many patients present to their physicians with frequent or even daily head pain. Careful evaluation of these patients is essential to rule out a number of possible secondary causes of persistent headache, such as trauma, vascular...

how to cite this article: nejad biglari h, karimzadeh p, mohammadi kord-kheyli m, hashemi sm. migraine types and triggering factors in children. iran j  child neurol 2012;6(2):33-38. objective migraine is a common problem in children and the mean prevalence of migraine in europe among 170,000 adults was 14.7% (8% in men and 17.6% in women) and in children and youth (36,000 participants), the pr...