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Renan Barros Domingues1, Priscila Bacchetti Cezar, Jair Schmidt Filho, Milton Nunes de Moraes Filho, Mariana Novaes Pinheiro, João G Marchiori, Francine Brito, Simone Aires Domingues.
Abstract
This is the first study to evaluate the prevalence of headache and migraine among Tupiniquim Brazilian natives. A high prevalence of headache was found and the most prevalent headache was migraine. Women were more commonly affected than men. A high impact of headache was found, especially among migraineurs. Half of the headache sufferers were under medical assistance for headache given by the government Family Health Program (PSF). Most of them declared to use common analgesics. None of them was taking prophylactic therapy for this medical problem.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19623436 DOI： 10.1590/s0004-282x2009000300008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arq Neuropsiquiatr ISSN： 0004-282X Impact factor: 1.420