Prevalence and impact of headache and migraine among Pomeranians in Espirito Santo, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Domingues,Renan B.
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Aquino,Camila C.H., Santos,Jasper G., Silva,André L. Pirajá da, Kuster,Gustavo W.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2006000600013
• topic: headache; migraine; Pomerans; prevalence

This is the first study to assess the prevalence of headache and migraine among Pomeranian descendents in Brazil. A high prevalence of headache in the last 6 months was found (53.2%). Most headache sufferers were diagnosed as having migraine (55%). More women reported to have headache than men (65% and 33.8%, respectively). Migraine was the most common headache found among women (62.2%). Among men migraine was responsible for only 37.8% of the cases of headache. A high impact of headache was found, especially among migraineurs. Most of the headache sufferers declared to seek medical assistance for headache (67%) and most of them used to take common analgesics for headache relief. None of them was under prophylactic therapy.