Is Headache Related to Asthma, Hay Fever, and Chronic Bronchitis? The Head‐HUNT Study

Aamodt, Anne Hege; Stovner, Lars Jacob; Langhammer, Arnulf; Hagen, Knut; Zwart, John‐Anker

doi:10.1111/j.1526-4610.2006.00597.x

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“…The relationship of headache and migraine with migraine was investigated in many studies. According to the results of the "Head Hunt" study, the frequency of asthma and chronic bronchitis was 1.5-times higher in patients with migraine and non-migraine headaches than in the normal population and the presence of asthma and bronchitis was found to be associated with the frequency of headache [7]. The fact that approximately 60% of our patients had headache indicates the high frequency of headache in asthma patients.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Visual loss 12 (7) was found to be significantly high in patients with a familial history of allergic symptoms (54%) (p=0.002). A statistically significant relationship was detected between the complaint of headache and the presence of the familial histories of asthma, migraine, and allergic symptoms [42% (p=0.01), 80.6% (p=0.015), and 71.4% (p=0.038), respectively].…”

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Presence of Headache and Migraine in Asthma Patients

Turan¹,

Susuz²,

Turan³

2017

Turk Thorac J

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OBJECTIVES:Migraine is a diseases characterized with severe headaches, with neurological and systemic findings. The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of migraine and to examine whether there is a relationship between atopic disorders, parental history and migraine in asthma patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A total of 288 asthma outpatients, who had the diagnosis by an early or late test of reversibility showing a reversible airway obstruction according to hospital database were included. The presence of headache, atopic symptoms and parental history about asthma, atopic disorders and migraine were asked. The patients with headache were consultated by neurology department and investigated about the presence of migraine. The diagnosis of migraine headache was made if patients fulfilled the International Headache Society (IHS) criteria. RESULTS:60.4% of patients described a headache. There were 94 patients (32.6%) with headaches meeting the IHS criteria for migraine. Only 12 patients had migraine with aura. There were atopic symptoms in 86.8% of patients. According to parental history, there were asthma in 47.9%, atopic symptoms in 39.6% and migraine in 22.2% of parents. Patients with atopic symptoms were found to have significantly high rate of headaches (65.3%) "p=0.007". The prevalence of migraine was significantly high in patients with parental atopic symptoms (54%) "p=0.002". Multiple logistic regression analysis identified that gender, parental history of asthma, allergia and migraine, and smoking were independent risk factors for presence of migraine in asthmatics. CONCLUSION:There is a high prevalence of migraine headaches in patients with asthma. The coexistence of asthma and headaches may be related with a similar pathophysiological mechanism; parental history, common genetic compounds and smoking may play role in this mechanism. The headaches in asthma patients, atopic symptoms and family history should be questioned, and clinicians should be careful about the presence of migraine.

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Presence of Headache and Migraine in Asthma Patients

Turan¹,

Susuz²,

Turan³

2017

Turk Thorac J

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“…42 This contrasts with findings from a Norwegian study, which showed an association of asthma, rhinitis and chronic bronchitis with migrainous and non-migrainous headaches. 21 Education is important to encourage patients to keep analgesic doses as low as possible. This will help to prevent the development of medication overuse headaches, especially those resulting from migraine medication overuse.…”

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“…The presence of rhinitis, or other significant respiratory or systemic disease, was recorded; this is because an association of headaches with asthma, rhinitis or chronic bronchitis has been described. 21 The presence of atopy, especially if the patient had positive skin tests, was also recorded.…”

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Prospective three-year follow up of a cohort study of 240 patients with chronic facial pain

2014

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Background: Patients often present with facial pain ascribed to sinusitis, despite normal nasal endoscopy and sinus computed tomography. Facial pain is increasingly recognised to be of neurological origin.Method: A cohort of 240 patients with chronic facial pain was followed up for 36 months at an otolaryngological practice in Malta. The types of facial pain were classified according to International Headache Classification criteria. The body mass index, occupation and educational level of patients were compared with the general population.Results: Tension-type mid-facial pain and facial migraine without aura were the most common types of chronic facial pain. The sites of pain, symptoms, treatment and outcomes for these principal pain types are discussed. Patients with mid-facial pain were treated with low-dose amitriptyline for eight weeks. After three years, nearly half of the patients were symptom free, and in a third the pain changed from being chronic to being episodic. The treatment of patients with facial migraine was more varied but the length of time until recurrence of pain was similar.Conclusion: The most effective long-term treatments for tension-type mid-facial pain and facial migraine were low-dose amitriptyline and low-dose amitriptyline and triptans, respectively.

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“…Recent demographical studies showed that migraine was more common to women than to men and its burden has been underestimated. Many illnesses, physical or psychiatric, have been reported to be co-morbid with migraine (Aamodt et al 2007;Bigal et al 2010;Buse et al 2010;Hagen et al 2002;Kurth et al 2008;Le et al 2011); these disorders occur at a greater coincidental rate among migraine patients than among the general population. Understanding the association of migraine with other health conditions can help the clinicians providing better care and investigate the pathogenesis of these disorders.…”

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Application of density estimation algorithms in analyzing co-morbidities of migraine

Yang

Oyang

Fuh

2011

2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW)

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In this study, we will propose a density estimation based data analysis procedure to investigate the co-morbid associations between migraine and the suspected diseases. The primary objective of this study has aimed to develop a novel analysis procedure that can discover insightful knowledge from large medical databases. The entire analysis procedure consists of two stages. During the first stage, a kernel density estimation algorithm named relaxed variable kernel density estimation (RVKDE) is invoked to identify the samples of interest. Then, in the second stage, a density estimation algorithm based on generalized Gaussian components and named G 2 DE is invoked to provide a summarized description of the distribution. The results obtained by applying the proposed twostaged procedure to analyze co-morbidities of migraine revealed that the proposed procedure could effectively identify a number of clusters of samples with distinctive characteristics. The results further revealed that the distinctive characteristics of the clusters extracted by the proposed procedure were in conformity with the observations reported in recently published articles. Accordingly, it is conceivable that the proposed analysis procedure can be exploited to provide valuable clues of pathogenesis and facilitate development of proper treatment strategies.

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Is Headache Related to Asthma, Hay Fever, and Chronic Bronchitis? The Head‐HUNT Study

Cited by 120 publications

References 33 publications

Presence of Headache and Migraine in Asthma Patients

Presence of Headache and Migraine in Asthma Patients

Prospective three-year follow up of a cohort study of 240 patients with chronic facial pain

Application of density estimation algorithms in analyzing co-morbidities of migraine

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