Variation in migraine prevalence by race

Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 52-59

  Stewart, Walter F ^a,c   Lipton, Richard B ^b   Liberman, Joshua ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; VOMITING;

EID: 0030035087     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.47.1.52     Document Type: Article

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