Clinical profile of cluster headaches in Japan: Low prevalence of chronic cluster headache, and uncoupling of sense and behaviour of restlessness

Imai, Noboru; Yagi, Nobuyasu; Kuroda, Ryou; Konishi, Takashi; Serizawa, Masahiro; Kobari, Masahiro

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“…Rozen et al [6] in a clinic based study in the USA noted two peaks of age of onset in women in their 2nd and 5th decade of life and prior studies by Peatfield et al [9] (2nd and 5th decade) and Kudrow [10] (3rd and 6th decade) noted the same finding. A recent investigation from Asia also showed this same bimodal age peaks in women with a major peak at 10-19 years and a second smaller peak of CH onset at 60-69 years [11]. Overall our survey study, which is the largest to look at gender differences of age of onset, reaffirms past and recent findings that female CH is more likely to start before 20 years of age with a second peak of onset after age 50 years.…”

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“…In the Manzoni et al [7] study only nausea significantly occurred more often in women than men, while the remainder of cranial autonomic and migrainous associated symptoms had no distinct gender differences. A recent study from Asia involving 68 men and 18 women noted a female predominance for some cranial autonomic symptoms including lacrimation and conjunctival injection, as well as all migrainous symptoms (nausea, vomiting, photophobia and phonophobia) [11]. Overall across the globe female CH is more likely to have migrainous associated symptoms, while males are more likely to have cranial autonomic symptoms except possibly in Japan although this study had a very small number of female CH patients.…”

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“…Bahra et al [3] noted a very high and almost equal prevalence of agitation in both sexes (males 94%, females 92%). The study by Imai et al [11] from Japan noted a sense of restlessness (72% vs. 69%) and pacing (50% vs. 41%) more often in women than men. We have found no other study in the literature looking at gender and self-injurious behavior with CH attacks.…”

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Female cluster headache in the United States of America: What are the gender differences?

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Fishman

2012

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

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Female cluster headache in the United States of America: What are the gender differences?

Rozen

Fishman

2012

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

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“…This study was conducted based on the ICHD-3β criteria and could not include a sufficient number of patients with chronic CH to analyze the impact of chronic CH. Similar to this study, the frequency of chronic CH has been reported at 3.5% in Japan [22]. These data reflect a substantial job burden for Asian patients with CH, despite the low proportion of patients with chronic CH.…”

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Impact of cluster headache on employment status and job burden: a prospective cross-sectional multicenter study

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BackgroundCluster headaches (CH) are recurrent severe headaches, which impose a major burden on the life of patients. We investigated the impact of CH on employment status and job burden.MethodsThe study was a sub-study of the Korean Cluster Headache Registry. Patients with CH were enrolled from September 2016 to February 2018 from 15 headache clinics in Korea. We also enrolled a headache control group with age-sex matched patients with migraine or tension-type headache. Moreover, a control group including individuals without headache complaints was recruited. All participants responded to a questionnaire that included questions on employment status, type of occupation, working time, sick leave, reductions in productivity, and satisfaction with current occupation. The questionnaire was administered to participants who were currently employed or had previous occupational experience.ResultsWe recruited 143 patients with CH, 38 patients with other types of headache (migraine or tension-type headache), and 52 headache-free controls. The proportion of employees was lower in the CH group compared with the headache and headache-free control groups (CH: 67.6% vs. headache controls: 84.2% vs. headache-free controls: 96.2%; p = 0.001). The CH group more frequently experienced difficulties at work and required sick leave than the other groups (CH: 84.8% vs. headache controls: 63.9% vs. headache-free controls: 36.5%; p < 0.001; CH: 39.4% vs. headache controls: 13.9% vs. headache-free controls: 3.4%; p < 0.001). Among the patients with CH, sick leave was associated with younger age at CH onset (25.8 years vs. 30.6 years, p = 0.014), severity of pain rated on a visual analogue scale (9.3 vs. 8.8, p = 0.008), and diurnal periodicity during the daytime (p = 0.003). There were no significant differences with respect to the sick leave based on sex, age, CH subtypes, and CH recurrence.ConclusionsCH might be associated with employment status. Most patients with CH experienced substantial burdens at work.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s10194-018-0911-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…The fact might be attributed to regional and racial reasons. For cluster headache, the male: female ratio was 6.5∶1, which was similar to results from Taiwanese (6.4∶1) [16] and Japanese (3.8∶1) [17].…”

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Application of ICHD-II Criteria in a Headache Clinic of China

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Di²,

Dai³

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BackgroundChina has the huge map and the largest population in the world. Previous studies on the prevalence and classification of headaches were conducted based on the general population, however, similar studies among the Chinese outpatient population are scarce. This study aimed to analyze the characteristics of 1843 headache patients enrolled in a North China headache clinic of the General Hospital for Chinese People's Liberation Army from October 2011 to May 2012, with the International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd Edition (ICHD-II).Methods and ResultsPersonal interviews were carried out and a detailed questionnaire was used to collect medical records including age, sex and headache characteristics. Patients came from 28 regions of China with the median age of 40.9 (9–80) years and the female/male ratio of 1.67/1. The primary headaches (78.4%) were classified as the following: migraine (39.1%), tension-type headache (32.5%), trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (5.3%) and other primary headache (1.5%). Among the rest patients, 12.9% were secondary headaches, 5.9% were cranial neuralgias and 2.5% were unspecified or not elsewhere classified. Fourteen point nine percent (275/1843) were given an additional diagnosis of chronic daily headache, including medication-overuse headache (MOH, 49.5%), chronic tension-type headache (CTTH, 32.7%) and chronic migraine (CM, 13.5%). The visual analogue scale (VAS) score of TTH with MOH was significantly higher than that of CTTH (6.8±2.0 vs 5.6±2.0, P<0.001). The similar result was also observed in VAS score between migraine with MOH and CM (8.0±1.5 vs 7.0±1.5, P = 0.004). The peak age at onset of TTH for male and female were both in the 3rd decade of life. However, the age distribution at onset of migraine shows an obvious sex difference, i.e. the 2nd decade for females and the 1st decade for males.Conclusions/SignificanceThis study revealed the characteristics of the headache clinic outpatients in a tertiary hospital of North China that migraine is the most common diagnosis. Furthermore, most headaches in this patient population can be classified using ICHD-II criteria.

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Clinical profile of cluster headaches in Japan: Low prevalence of chronic cluster headache, and uncoupling of sense and behaviour of restlessness

Abstract: Japanese patients in this study showed a relatively low prevalence of chronic cluster headaches, and uncoupling of a sense of restlessness and restless behaviour. These features of cluster headache may be more common in Japanese and Taiwanese patients than in Caucasian patients.

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Female cluster headache in the United States of America: What are the gender differences?

Female cluster headache in the United States of America: What are the gender differences?

Impact of cluster headache on employment status and job burden: a prospective cross-sectional multicenter study

Application of ICHD-II Criteria in a Headache Clinic of China

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