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The prevalence of primary headache disorders in Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
BACKGROUND: Knowledge of the epidemiology of primary headache disorders in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains very limited. We performed a population-based survey in rural and urban areas of Ethiopia, using methods similar to those of an earlier study in ...
Steiner, TJ   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Bridging the gaps of headache care for underserved populations: A medication overuse headache survey among international headache society members from Latin America

open access: yesCephalalgia Reports, 2019
Introduction: Headache epidemiological studies in Latin America are scarce, and available data suggest that medication overuse headache is an existing health concern in the region.
Marco Lisicki   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Headache is common. Up to 5% of attendances to emergency departments and acute medical units are due to headache. Headache is classified as either primary (eg migraine, cluster headache) or secondary to another cause (eg meningitis, subarachnoid ...
Agrawal   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Acute medication overuse in headache [PDF]

open access: yesEinstein (São Paulo), 2004
Primary headache patients frequently overuse analgesics. Acute medication overuse plays an important role in the transformation of episodic into chronic headaches.
Abouch Valenty Krymchantovscki
doaj  

Medication overuse headache: a review of current evidence and management strategies

open access: yesFrontiers in Pain Research, 2023
The third edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3) defines medication-overuse headache (MOH) as a headache that develops when a person regularly uses acute or symptomatic headache medications excessively (10 or more, or ...
Yabets Tesfaye Kebede   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pain perception and migraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: It is well-known that both inter-and intra-individual differences exist in the perception of pain; this is especially true in migraine, an elusive pain disorder of the head.
Coppola, Gianluca   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Occipital nerve stimulation for headache disorders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) was originally described in the treatment of occipital neuralgia. However, the spectrum of possible indications has expanded in recent years to include primary headache disorders, such as migraine and cluster headaches ...
Bartsch, Thorsten, Paemeleire, Koen
core   +2 more sources

Documento de revisión y actualización de la cefalea por uso excesivo de medicación (CUEM)

open access: yesNeurología, 2021
Resumen: Introducción: La cefalea con uso excesivo de medicación es una cefalea secundaria en la que el uso regular o frecuente de medicación analgésica produce un aumento de la frecuencia de una cefalea de base, pasando de episódica a crónica.
C. González-Oria   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

The therapeutic armamentarium in migraine is quite elderly. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Global Burden of Disease 2010 study considers migraine as one of the most important noncommunicable diseases in the world, classifying it third in terms of global prevalence (14.70%): it sums up the 54.19% of all the years of life lived with disabilities
Martelletti, Paolo
core   +1 more source

Medication overuse and drug addiction: a narrative review from addiction perspective

open access: yesThe Journal of Headache and Pain, 2021
Chronic headache is particularly prevalent in migraineurs and it can progress to a condition known as medication overuse headache (MOH). MOH is a secondary headache caused by overuse of analgesics or other medications such as triptans to abort acute ...
Tatiane Teru Takahashi   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

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