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28 sie 2024 · The condition is more common in people older than age 50 and is seen more in women than men. It may run in families. Risk factors include hypertension and multiple sclerosis.
1 wrz 2024 · Diagnosing and treating migraine in older adults can be challenging. Underlying health conditions may affect treatment choices, symptoms may change or new ones may develop, and distinguishing migraine from other serious causes is often difficult.
In this article we review the clinical aspects of common primary headaches and medication overuse headache in the elderly and their treatments, with emphasis on age-specific problems.
Evaluation and management of headache in older adults can present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Some primary headache disorders, such as migraine, may present differently in older adults; others, such as hypnic headache, may be encountered more frequently in older than in the general population.
1 lut 2018 · In older adults, headache is most likely a primary disorder, such as tension-type headache or migraine; however, there is a higher risk of secondary causes, such as giant cell arteritis or intracranial lesions, than in younger adults.
13 kwi 2018 · Headache in older adults often represents a different diagnosis than in younger persons, and often with more serious consequences. Although primary headache is common in older adults, headaches...
6 mar 2018 · New cases of headache in older adults should be carefully evaluated for a differential diagnosis of primary headache and to examine underlying causes of secondary headache.
