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Marcela Dalla Bernardina Fraga1, Ricardo Silva Pinho, Solange Andreoni
1Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo SP, Brazil.
Unlabelled:
Migraine can be triggered by many factors such as stress, sleep, fasting and environmental causes. There are few studies that evaluated migraine trigger factors in the adolescent population.
Methods:
A total of 100 participants from 10 to 19 years were subjected to a detailed headache questionnaire, with demographic and clinical data, and a headache diary including trigger factors during a two-month period was asked.
Results:
Fifty of the participants exhibited chronic migraine and the other 50 participants demonstrated episodic migraine. The most common group of trigger factors reported was the environmental one, mainly sun/clarity, followed by hot weather and the smell of perfume.
Conclusions:
Ninety-one percent of children and adolescents with migraine reported a trigger factor precipitating the migraine attack.
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