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[Age as an independent risk factor for secondary headaches]
Jano Alves de Souza1, Pedro Ferreira Moreira Filho, Carla da Cunha Jevoux
1Setor de Investigação de Cefaléia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Neterói, RJ, Brazil. janoasouza@terra.com.br
Objective:
To verify if the age is a risk factor for secondary headaches, regardless the time interval since the onset of the headache complaint.
Method:
1131 patients were selected, with the main complaint of headache. The ratio of secondary headaches was evaluated and compared between young and elderly patients in general; between individuals with headache starting before and after 60 years of age; and between young and elderly subjects with headache having started for less than one year.
Results:
Elderly patients in general and individuals with headache having started after 60 years of age presented a higher ratio of secondary headaches than the young subjects and the ones whose pain started before 60 years of age. Elderly subjects with headache of recent start presented a higher ratio of secondary headaches than young individuals with the same time of pain evolution.
Conclusion:
Age is an independent risk factor for secondary headaches, regardless the time interval since the onset of the complaint.
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