A study presented at the 2023 Scottsdale Headache Symposium found that children and adolescents transitioned from intermittent to continuous headache more quickly than adults, with 78% of participants reporting either sudden onset or rapid evolution to continuous headaches. The results of the study also revealed higher reported rates of headache-related disability for those rapidly evolving from intermittent to continuous headache compared with those with sudden onset headache. Additionally, headache-related disability was greater when continuous headache onset was associated with a trigger.
Results of the study analysis revealed the following:
Nearly half of the participants had a diagnosis of migraine or probable migraine (48.4%), followed by
Although more than half of participants (56.8%) reported no triggers, commonly reported triggers included
The study authors suggest that future research should investigate factors that influence quicker headache evolution in children and factors that influence the perception of headache trigger and higher headache-related disability, as well as how headache evolution duration affects prognosis and recovery.
The study was conducted by authors from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
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