Headache and comorbidity in children and adolescents
Benedetta Bellini1, Marco Arruda, Alessandra Cescut
1Department of Pediatrics and Child Neuropsychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Dei Sabelli 108, Rome, Italy. vincenzo.guidetti@uniroma1.it.
Abstract:
Headache is one of the most common neurological symptom reported in childhood and adolescence, leading to high levels of school absences and being associated with several comorbid conditions, particularly in neurological, psychiatric and cardiovascular systems. Neurological and psychiatric disorders, that are associated with migraine, are mainly depression, anxiety disorders, epilepsy and sleep disorders, ADHD and Tourette syndrome. It also has been shown an association with atopic disease and cardiovascular disease, especially ischemic stroke and patent foramen ovale (PFO).
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