Prevalence of headache and migrainous headache in Nigerian Africans: a community-based study.
East Afr Med J
; 69(4): 196-9, 1992 Apr.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1644029
ABSTRACT
In a door-to-door survey in a Nigerian town with stable population of about twenty thousand, 18,594 subjects were screened with a questionnaire, which involved a complete census, administered by non-doctor, including primary health care personnel. Migrainous headache was diagnosed on the basis of combination of responses to the questionnaire shown in a pilot study validated by neurological examination to have 92% sensitivity and 99% specificity. Crude life time prevalence ratio of at least one episode of headache unspecified was 51 percent (50% in males and 52% in females). The crude prevalence ratio of migrainous headache was 5.3 per 100 (5 per 100 in males and 5.6 per 100 in females), with peak age-specific prevalence ratios in the first decade in both males and females. Migrainous headache was three times as common in females as in males in the second and third decades. Prevalence of migrainous headache in Nigerian Africans appears less than in Caucasians. No social status was at special risk to developing migrainous headache.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Cefaleia
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Transtornos de Enxaqueca
Tipo de estudo:
Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Africa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
East Afr Med J
Ano de publicação:
1992
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Nigéria