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Evidence‐Based Understanding of Medication‐Overuse Headache: Clinical Implications
Author(s) -
Dodick David,
Freitag Frederick
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2006.00604.x
Subject(s) - natural history , terminology , epidemiology , presentation (obstetrics) , medicine , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , pathology , surgery , philosophy , linguistics
This article discusses the problem of medication‐overuse headache from a variety of perspectives, based on the best available evidence. This presentation clarifies the definition of the disorder, distinguishing it from alternative terminology, and describes its epidemiology, natural history, and clinical course. Antimigraine medications are believed to differ in their relative liability to contribute to the development of medication‐overuse headache. Patients most at risk of developing medication‐overuse headache need to be identified so that appropriate preventive measures can be initiated.