Epidemiology and impact of headache: an overview.
Headache is one of the most common presenting complaints of patients in the practice of medicine. Frequently a symptom of numerous diseases, and frustratingly, the principle symptom of the primary headache syndromes, headache is experienced by 90% of the general population at some point in life.
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Timothy R
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Ryan Headache Center, Mercy Health Research, 1585 Woodlake Drive, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63017, USA. smittr@stlo.mercy.net
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