title: Handedness and headache.
abstract: A California handedness study involved 199 male and 74 female cluster headache sufferers as well as 477 migraineurs. Earlier reported data indicated that cluster headache patients had a left-handedness prevalence of over 15%. With the current data the prevalence in males was 11.0% and in females, 8.2%. The corresponding migraine figures were 11.8% and 8.1%. The cluster and migraine headache groups did not differ significantly from each other or from the expected 10% frequency of left-handedness in either sex.
authors.affiliation: New England Medical Computing, Winchester, MA 01890.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Messinger
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Messinger
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kudrow
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Kudrow
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D003027:Cluster Headache / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012737:Sex Factors