Epidemiologia da Cefaléia em Crianças e Adolescentes

Abstract

Headache is a common disorder among children and adolescents for whose high prevalence is identified. There is a higher female prevalence alter adolescence and familiar predisposition. The study of headache types and associated risk factors has been hampered by a number of methodological problems, specially the diagnosis is based almost entirely on clinical experience. As a result of these problems, a number of inconsitencies in descriptive epidemiology of headache, the characterisation of the subtypes, and the identification of risk factors are apparent in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the descriptive epidemiology of headache and headache subtypes among children and adolescents and a summary overview of associated risk factors.