Migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) are highly prevalent primary headaches that remain underdiagnosed and undertreated in clinical practice. The similarities and differences between migraine and TTH may impose diagnostic challenges as well as management difficulties. In addition, the possibility of migraine chronification or transformation in daily or near-daily headache raises the potenti...

OBJECTIVE Recurrent headaches and ADHD are prevalent in the pediatric population. Herein, we assess if ADHD is comorbid to headaches overall, to headache subtypes (e.g., migraine), and to headache frequency. METHOD Informed consent and analyzable data were obtained for 5,671 children aged 5 to 12 years (65.9% of the target sample). Parents and teachers were interviewed using validated questio...

OBJECTIVES Inflammatory molecules and neurotrophic factors are implicated in pain modulation; however, their role in primary headaches is not yet clear. The aim of this study was to compare the levels of serum biomarkers in migraine and tension-type headache. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study. We measured serum levels of adiponectin, chemokines, and neurotrophic factors in patients wit...

PURPOSE This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of headaches and migraine in children with nocturnal enuresis (NE) and to improve knowledge on these conditions. In particular, for this purpose, a possible pathogenic relationship linking both conditions and the impact of headaches and migraine on NE persistence was evaluated. METHODS Researchers enrolled 123 children with NE, aged between 5...

UNLABELLED Headaches occur frequently and thus are a key component of sociocentric medical education. OBJECTIVE To study headaches among students of medicine and psychology in a single university. METHOD This was a questionnaire-based survey of a cohort of students of medicine and psychology. RESULTS The overall lifetime prevalence of headache was 98% and over the last year, 91%. Tensiona...

Headaches are common in children and teenagers. By 7 years of age, 40% of children have had headaches, with 2.5% having frequent nonmigraine types and 1.4% having migraine (1). By 15 years of age, 75% have had headaches: 15.7% with frequent tension type, 5.3% with migraines, and 54% with infrequent nonmigraine headaches. The evaluation of the child with headaches is similar to the basic approac...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The epidemiology and impact of headache disorders are only partially documented for Asian countries. We investigated the prevalence and impact of migraine and tension-type headache - which are the two most common primary headache disorders - in a Korean population. METHODS A stratified random population sample of Koreans older than 19 years was selected and evaluated us...

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...