Precipitating and Relieving Factors of Migraine Headache in 200 Iraqi Kurdish Patients

Al-Shimmery, Ehsan K.

doi:10.5001/omj.2010.59

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“…Their work reported 50% positive family history in migraine patients. Similar findings were reported by Al-Shimmery [14]. Recently Al-Shimmery [14] found 61% magraine patients were having positive family history of migraine.…”

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“…Similar findings were reported by Al-Shimmery [14]. Recently Al-Shimmery [14] found 61% magraine patients were having positive family history of migraine. More over findings has recorded 70% of positive family history [23].…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Similarly, Queiroz et al [13] also recorded a high prevalence of migraine headache in people with age of 30 -39 years. Likely, the work of Al-Shimmery [14] supported a high frequency of migraine in the age range of 30 -39 years. Similarly, Boru et al [15] reported a high prevalence of migraine in people with age of 35 -45 years.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…More over the work of Neut et al [26] showed stress or tension and lack of sleep as most prevalent triggers for migraine. Contrarily, findings of Al-Shimmery [14] are different. Who reported stress and increasing physical activity to be the two most prevalent trigger for migraine in Iraqi Kurdish patients.…”

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confidence: 84%

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Prevalence and Perceptions about Migraine among Students and Patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

Zahid¹,

Sthanadar²,

Kaleem³

et al. 2014

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Migraine is a common neurological disorder, prevalent in almost all over the world population and being considered as the 13 th major medical disorder among other major disorders across the globe, generally characterized with unilateral or bilateral headache, nausea and vomiting. In developing world, countries like Pakistan, most of the patients are not well aware of migraine headaches, as usually taken for simple headache due to no proper awareness. Usually it is not a contagious condition and most of the time it is recoded as episodic in nature. To assess the migraine, its frequency, symptoms, usual triggers and patients' perceptions, the present study was conducted. For this purpose a prospective study was carried out based on properly designed questionnaire. The data were collected from 7 educational institutes, including students of Islamia College Peshawar, University of Peshawar, Khyber Medical College, Engineering University Peshawar, Fatima Jinnah College Peshawar, Commerce College Peshawar and Agriculture University Peshawar. Part of data was also collected from patients visiting Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar for their headache problems. A total of 270 questionnaires were filled up. About 81 (30.00%) headache cases were recorded, fulfilling the International criteria of Headache. Out of 81 recorded cases, 31 (38.3%) patients were of migraine with aura and 50 (61.7%) were of migraine without aura condition. The prevalence of migraine in the study population was found to be 30.00%. The frequency of female migraine patients was higher i.e. 31 (34.1%) than the male sufferers 50 (27.9%). The present study clearly showed that the higher frequency (65.0%) of migraine exists in the age group of above 30 years age. The most prevalent trigger was found to be tension, which was in pa-* Corresponding author. M. Zahid et al. 509rallel followed by the lack of sleep or oversleeping. A family history for migraine was found in migraine patients. Usually the condition was found to limit the routine activities of patients. The present study recorded that most of the migraine patients (40.2%) did not visit doctors at hospital and preferably go for self-medication, which really needs a public awareness in order to properly cope this neurological disorder, which may pose future medical complications as well.

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Prevalence and Perceptions about Migraine among Students and Patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

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Sthanadar²,

Kaleem³

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“…Another population based study in Iraq, reached the conclusion that psychological upset, physical activity and changes in weather conditions were the most important precipitating factors in migraine patients 28 . The results of a study by Theeler et al on a mainly military population with headache were similar to the previous studies.…”

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Migraine and tension-type headache triggers in a Greek population

Constantinides

Anagnostou

Bougea

et al. 2015

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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Migraine is a primary headache that is usually severe, unilateral and throbbing in nature. It is often accompanied by photo -or phonophobia, nausea and vomiting and it worsens with physical activity 1 . A number of external and internal factors are considered triggers for migraine. Amongst them, the most common are stress, dietary factors, environmental factors, hormonal factors and sleep disorders.Tension type headache on the other hand is the most common primary headache, and is characterized by bilateral location, pressing/tightening quality and of generally milder intensity compared to migraine. The accompanying symptoms of migraine (nausea, vomiting, photo-and phonophobia) are only rarely encountered in tension-type headache 1 .The importance of these triggers (particularly stress and dietary factors) varies significantly among studies, presumably because of the different lifestyles and cultures of cohorts 2,3,4,5 . The purpose of this article is to review the literature regarding trigger factors of headache and to present data about the prevalence of these trigger factors in a Greek cohort of migraineurs and patients with tension-type headache (TTH) in a Headache Clinic of a Tertiary Hospital in Athens. Method All patients examined at the Headache Clinic of Eginition AbstrActMigraine and tension type headache are the two most common primary headaches. The purpose of this study was to detect differences in clinical characteristics and headache triggers and in a Greek cohort of 51 migraineurs and 12 patients with tension-type headache. (TTH) Migraine patients had a significantly lower age at headache onset and frequency, higher mean visual analogue scale (VAS) and greater maximum duration of headache episodes compared to TTH patients. They did not differ from (TTH) patients in quality of headache, laterality of pain, way of headache installation and progression and temporal pattern of headaches. Nausea, vomiting and phonophobia were more frequent in migraine. Triggering of headaches by dietary factors was associated with migraine, whereas there was no difference between the two groups in any of the other headache triggers. Stress, both physical and psychological, were particularly common in both patient groups.Keywords: migraine, tension type headache, precipitating factors.resuMo Enxaqueca e cefaleia tipo tensional são as duas cefaleias primárias mais frequentes. O propósito deste estudo foi avaliar as diferenças e características dos fatores desencadeantes destas cefaleias numa coorte grega de 51 pacientes com enxaqueca e 12 com cefaleia tipo tensional. Pacientes com enxaqueca tinham uma idade significativamente menor por ocasião do início da cefaleia e maior frequência, maiores valores de (VAS) e maior duração dos episódios em comparação com os pacientes com (CTT). Não houve diferença entre os pacientes com enxaqueca e (CTT) com relação à qualidade e lateralidade da dor, na forma de instalação e progressão, e no padrão temporal das cefaleias. Náuseas, vômitos e fonofobia foram mais frequentes em enxaqu...

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RETRACTED: Migraine headache in Sudan

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Background: Migraine is a main form of headache, it is also a chronic and complex neuroinflammatory disease; it is characterized by recurrent severe headaches, usually affecting one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea and blurred vision. In susceptible individuals, irritants can trigger migraine attacks, which can be considered as triggers or accelerators.Objective: To describe the precipitating factors, clinical presentation, and treatment of migraine headache in Sudanese patients.Methods: This is a descriptive hospital-based prospective study covering 130 patients during the study period from January 2016 to December 2018. At the National Centre for Neurological Science, Khartoum, participants were Sudanese patients with migraine headache after exclusion of other causes of headache. Data was collected using structured questionnaire entered and analyzed using SPSS version 22.0, p value < .05 is considered significant. Results:The study covered 130 study participants most of them were females (80%), within 26-35 years of age (56.9%) and a considerable proportion of them were housewives (40%). The majority of the study participants had headache without aura in 81.5% and headache with aura in 18.5% (mainly visual type 87.5%). Photophobia and nausea were the main associated symptoms in 51.5% and 50%, respectively.Acetaminophen was the main prescribed treatment in 46.1%, beta blockers was the main prophylaxis in 29.2%. Environmental triggers were the prevalent predisposing factors (43.8%) followed by fasting, lack of sleep, and exertion (24.6% for each). Conclusion:Environmental conditions were the commonest triggering factors of migraine headache, while Acetaminophen was the most common drug used for relieving migraine in this population.

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Precipitating and Relieving Factors of Migraine Headache in 200 Iraqi Kurdish Patients

Abstract: Psychological upset, stress and excessive physical activity were the commonest triggering factors of migraine headache, while NSAID was the commonest relieving factor of migraine in this population. Family history was present in 61% of migraine patients based mainly from maternal root.

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Prevalence and Perceptions about Migraine among Students and Patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

Prevalence and Perceptions about Migraine among Students and Patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

Migraine and tension-type headache triggers in a Greek population

RETRACTED: Migraine headache in Sudan

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