The journal of headache and pain

The most recent articles from: J Headache Pain April 2009

J Headache Pain · Apr 2009

Review

From drug-induced headache to medication overuse headache. A short epidemiological review, with a focus on Latin American countries.

Medication overuse headache (MOH) is a daily or almost-daily type of headache that results from the chronicization, usually migraine or tension-type headache, as a consequence of the progressive increase of intake of symptomatic drugs. MOH is now the third most frequent type of headache and affects a percentage of 1-1.4% of the general population. ⋯ Limited amount of data exists on the burden and impact of MOH in Latin American Countries. In this review, we summarise the reliable information from the literature on the epidemiological impact of MOH.

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