Prevalence of Headaches

Headaches are just about the most common problem that healthcare professionals come across, but there is still a lot of misunderstanding about how common they are.

First let's understand the terms we will use here:

• Prevalence is the proportion of the population that has the headache types during a specified time period.
• Incidence is the number of new cases of the headache types during a specified time period.

Primary and Secondary Headaches

In the 1990s a study in Norway

Migraines