Gender influence on some migraine aspects among patients attending private neurology clinic in Tikrit City

Abdulazeez, Sadoon; Muteb, Ayied

	Gender influence on some migraine aspects among patients attending private neurology clinic in Tikrit City
Medical Journal of Tikrit
Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 162, 2016, Pages 23-29
Authors
Sadoon Abdulazeez; Ayied Muteb
Abstract
Headache is one of the most common complaints of neurologic patients. Adults at age of 20-50 years are the most likely to suffer but children and adolescents are affected too. Here we investigated gender influence on some migraine aspects among patients contacting private neurological clinic in Tikrit from period Jan. 1st 2008 to Nov 30th 2009, 1950 patients were selected systematically by choosing every fifth attendant among those who are suffering of various neurological disorders, all of them residing Salahddin district. A self-created questionnaire list, which relied upon the criteria of migrainous headaches defined & issued by the International Headache Society, the data included demographic information, characteristics (type & frequency) of headache, associated symptoms, triggering conditions & family history. Of those, 260(19.7%) were complaining migrainous form they represent 13.3% of the total number of the selected people. Females were two fold the males in suffering migraine, numbers were 175(67.3%) & 85(32.7%) respectively. Migraine seems to be more frequent among patients at thirties 140/260 i.e. 53.8%. In our study stress emerges as the most important trigger factor of migraine that represents 77.1% in females. 46% of patients with migraine headache females have +ve family history.

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