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A Canadian Population Survey on the Clinical, Epidemiologic and Societal Impact of Migraine and Tension-Type Headache

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

William Pryse-Phillips ,
Helen Findlay ,
Peter Tugwell ,
John Edmeads ,
T.J. Murray  and
R.F. Nelson
William Pryse-Phillips*
Affiliation:
Division of Neurology, Health Sciences Centre, St. John’s
Helen Findlay
Affiliation:
Glaxo Canada Inc., Toronto
Peter Tugwell
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
John Edmeads
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto
T.J. Murray
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax
R.F. Nelson
Affiliation:
Division of Neurology, Health Sciences Centre, St. John’s
*
Division of Neurology, Health Sciences Centre, 300 Prince Phillip Drive, St. John’s, Newfoundland A1B3V6
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Trained telephone interviewers contacted 1,573 adults across Canada about the nature and frequency of headaches suffered by them or by others in their households. Using a table of pain symptoms and other characteristics abstracted from the International Headache Society (IHS) classification, the headaches were assigned to migraine headache, tension-type headache or other diagnostic groups. Of the households sampled, 59% had at least one headache sufferer in residence. The proportion of headache sufferers with migraine was 14%; with tension-type, 36%; and with both, 14%. Migraine headache caused more disability than tension-type headache, with nearly 20% of migraine sufferers taking time off work and disability lasting for a mean of 1 day. It is concluded that the current prevalences of migraine and tension-type headache in Canada fall around the mean of previous studies, that the IHS criteria can form a basis for diagnostic classification and that the functional impact of migraine has been seriously underestimated in the past.

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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , August 1992 , pp. 333 - 339
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1992

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