Tension-type headache and women: Do sex hormones influence tension-type headache?

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 436-440

  Ailani, Jessica ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic tension type headache; Sex hormones; Tension type headache

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MIGRAINE; MORBIDITY; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; STRESS; TENSION HEADACHE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 78649904596     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0144-4     Document Type: Review

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