Prescription headache medication in OEF/OIF veterans: Results from the women veterans cohort study

Headache

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1312-1322

  Seng, Elizabeth K ^a   Driscoll, Mary A ^b   Brandt, Cynthia A ^b   Bathulapalli, Harini ^b   Goulet, Joseph ^b   Silliker, Norman ^b   Kerns, Robert D ^b   Haskell, Sally G ^b  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; headache; posttraumatic stress disorder; trauma; traumatic brain injury; veteran

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PROPRANOLOL; TOPIRAMATE; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE; VERAPAMIL;

ARTICLE; BRIEF PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; CHECKLIST; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; POST DEPLOYMENT HEALTH ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER CHECKLIST; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAUMATIC LIFE EVENTS QUESTIONNAIRE; VETERANS HEALTH;

GENDER; HEADACHE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TRAUMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; ANALGESICS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84884146110     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/head.12155     Document Type: Article

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