Weather and emergency room visits for migraine headaches in Ottawa, Canada

Headache

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-72

  Villeneuve, P J ^a,b   Szyszkowicz, M ^a   Stieb, D ^a   Bourque, D A ^c  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case crossover study; Emergency room visit; Migraine; Weather

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SNOW;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOG; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGY; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; WIND;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; WEATHER;

EID: 33645100757     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2006.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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