Sex hormones and primary headaches other than migraine

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 407-414

  Lieba Samal, Doris ^a   Wöber, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Gender medicine; Hemicrania continua; Menopause; Menstruation; Oestrogen; Perimenstrual headache; Pregnancy; Primary headaches; Progesterone; Sex hormones; Tension type headache; Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; INDOMETACIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; OREXIN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; SUMATRIPTAN;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLUSTER HEADACHE; HEADACHE; HEMICRANIA CONTINUA; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL MIGRAINE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PAROXYSMAL HEMICRANIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; TENSION HEADACHE; TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALALGIA;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER HEADACHE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE;

EID: 80755132260     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-011-0211-5     Document Type: Article

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