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Prevalence of chronic headache in Croatia
Vlasta Vuković-Cvetković1, Davor Plavec, Arijana Lovrenčić-Huzjan
1Department of Neurology, Reference Center for Headaches of the Ministry of Health of Republic Croatia, University Hospital Sestre Milosrdnice, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Background:
Chronic headache describes the presence of headache for >15 days per month on average for >3 months and fulfills the rest of the IHS criteria. The prevalence of chronic headache is within the range of 0.5-7.3% worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the 1-year prevalence of chronic headache in adult Croatian population.
Methods:
The data were collected from a cross-sectional survey of an adult population (>18 years of age) sample. Randomly selected patients from the general population in four Croatian cities were asked to fulfill a self-completed questionnaire. The prevalence of chronic headache was calculated in the sample representing 3,383,769 Croatian adults.
Results:
The total sample included 1542 responders among which 616 were with headache. The 1-year prevalence of chronic headache was 2.4%, and 0.9% of responders declared having headache 30 days per month. According to these results, 81,192 adult inhabitants in Croatia suffer from chronic headache.
Conclusions:
The prevalence of chronic headache in Croatia is comparable to other countries worldwide. These patients require special attention and should be offered multidisciplinary medical support.
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