Headache
This useful review of causes and management of headaches reminds us that:
- Headache affects 95% of people in their lifetime
- Headache affects 75% of people in any one year
- One in 10 people have migraine
- One in 30 people have headache more often than not, for 6 months or more
- At least 90% of patients seen in a neurology outpatient clinic with headache will have migraine, tension type headache, or a chronic daily headache syndrome
- Sinister causes of headache are rare, perhaps 0.1% of all headaches in primary care
Source: Practical Neurology 2008;8:335-343
