Agreement of self-reported migraine with ICHD-II criteria in the Women's Health Study.
Migraine is a common headache disorder that is increasingly being evaluated in population-based studies. The American Migraine Study II and the Women's Health Study (WHS) have successfully used 'modified' International Classification of Headache Disorders, 1st edition (ICHD-I) criteria to classify patients. Investigating agreement of self-reported migraine in large epidemiological studies with the criteria of the revised version [International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd edition (ICHD-II)] is sparse. We have investigated 1675 women with self-reported migraine participating in the WHS, who provided additional information on a detailed migraine questionnaire that allowed us to apply all ICHD-II criteria. In this sub-cohort, we confirmed self-reported migraine in > 87% of women when applying the ICHD-II criteria for migraine (71.5%) and probable migraine without aura (16.2%). In conclusion, there is excellent agreement between self-reported migraine and ICHD-II-based migraine classification in the WHS. In addition, questionnaire-based migraine assessment according to full ICHD-II criteria in large population-based studies is feasible.
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Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 900 Commonwealth Avenue East, 3rd fl, Boston, MA 02215-1204, USA. mschuerks@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001900:Boston / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D038622:Internationality; D008875:Middle Aged; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D015990:Placebo Effect; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016387:Women's Health; D055815:Young Adult