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| What is the prevalence of migraine? |
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Professor of Clinical Medicine Department of Internal Medicine University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati, Ohio The prevalence of migraine headache is approximately 12% in the general population. Of that, 16 to 18% of women have migraine headache and 5 to 7% of men have migraine headache. So it’s about 3 to 4 times more common among women than men. |
| Last Updated on Friday, 26 March 2010 14:43 |
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Comorbidities
General FAQs
- What is the prevalence of migraine?
- How do I manage complex migraine patients while living in a rural community?
- When do you refer patients to a headache specialist?
- What should clinicians be aware of when they are thinking of the progression of migraine as a disease?
- When should I refer a migraine patient being treated in primary care to a headache specialist?
- Can you get a migraine without aura?
- What are the characteristics of migraine with aura?
Diagnosis
- Do clinicians need to be aware of the different subsets of migraine?
- What are some of the presentations of migraine that can lead to diagnostic confusion?
- What differentiates an individual with an episodic migraine from an individual with a chronic migraine?
- Should clinicians consider migraine an acute or chronic disease?
- What is the biggest pitfall in the diagnosis of migraine?
- Is there established criteria that practitioners use to make a diagnosis of migraine?
Menstrual Migraine
- What do we think is the mechanism of action of menstrual migraine?
- What are the new ICD-9 codes for menstrual migraine?
- How common is pure menstrual migraine (PMM) vs. menstrually related migraine (MRM)?
- How does the new coding differentiate between pure menstrual migraine and menstrually related migraine?
- Why is menstrual migraine defined as migraine without aura?
- Is menstrual migraine the same as a premenstrual headache and therefore, part of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)?
- What are the issues in mini-prophylactic therapies for migraine?
- What are the new codes for menstrual migraine?
- How do you differentiate between pure menstrual migraine and menstrually related migraine?
- What are thought to be some of the triggers of menstrual migraine?
- What is your approach to treatment of menstrual migraine?
Treatment Issues
- Should opioids be prescribed as acute therapy for migraine?
- Are there any new treatments on the horizon specifically for menstrual migraine?
- Are there patients in whom triptans are contraindicated in the treatment of menstrual migraine?
- When treating a patient with a triptan that does not seem to be effective, would you recommend first trying a different triptan or a different therapeutic approach?
- Are there any side effects commonly seen with triptans that clinicians need to communicate to their patients?
- Are there nonpharmacologic strategies that a patient can use as a means of early intervention?
- How important is early intervention in the treatment of migraine?
- Do you have any advice regarding assessment of adherence?
- How commonplace is non-adherence?
- Why is adherence a key concern for physicians managing migraine?
Women's Issues
- What happens with migraine headache during different hormonal life events in women?
- How do hormonal reproductive life events modulate migraine with and without aura differently?
- Are there any risks to the patient with hormone replacement therapy?
- Are birth control pills safe to take with migraine?
- Do hormones trigger migraine at other times during the menstrual cycle?
- Are oral contraceptives safe for the migraine patient?
- How do I treat the woman who is breastfeeding and having migraines?
- Can I use triptans to treat a woman with migraine who is pregnant?
- Is there controversy in hormone replacement therapy?
- What are the hormonal therapies for the female migraine patient?
- Is there a connection between migraine and hormones?