Epidemiology of tension-type headache

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 449-454

  Crystal, Sara C ^b   Robbins, Matthew S ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic daily headache; Comorbidity; Epidemiology; Progression; Tension type headache

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPISODIC TENSION HEADACHE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; PANIC; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TENSION HEADACHE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649909391     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0146-2     Document Type: Review

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