Epidemiology of migraine and headache in children and adolescents topical collection on childhood and adolescent headache

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Wöber Bingöl, Çiçek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Chronic migraine; Headache; Migraine with aura; Migraine without aura; Prevalence; Probable migraine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRAZIL; CANADA; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FINLAND; GERMANY; GREECE; HEADACHE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; ICELAND; INDIA; IRAN; ITALY; JAPAN; JORDAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MENSTRUAL MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE; NETHERLANDS; NIGERIA; NORWAY; PAKISTAN; POLAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QATAR; SAUDI ARABIA; SERBIA; SINGAPORE; SOUTH KOREA; SWEDEN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAIWAN; TANZANIA; THAILAND; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PUBERTY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84878695144     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-013-0341-z     Document Type: Article

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