Disease Information headache
Headache is one of the most common medical conditions of life. Studies have up to 90% of the general population appears to suffer from headaches at some point in life, but this means that 10% of our population never, ever a headache in their life has had. Here in Singapore, a recent large epidemiological study found that the lifetime prevalence of headache was 82.7% here, which do not vary between racial groups. Of those, migraine affects up to 9.3% of men, 39.9% suffer from episodic tension type headache and 2.4% of chronic tension headache type headache.
Headache can not be divided into 31.2% of respondents. The modal age of headache occur in all races was in the second decade, and was similar in all races. Headache morbidity was independent of age, gender, income, marital status, shift duties and training, and only correlated with race and a family history of severe headaches. Non-Chinese Chinese were compared with more likely to suffer from severe headache, seek medical attention and medical leave for their symptoms require. Non-Chinese had more than the Chinese migraine headache. …… Read More “Disease Information headache” »
