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Predictors of headache 22 years after hospitalization for head injury
Author(s) -
Nestvold K.,
Lundar T.,
Mowinckel P.,
Stavem K.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2005.00344.x
Subject(s) - medicine , head injury , head trauma , logistic regression , amnesia , pediatrics , physical therapy , surgery , psychiatry
Objectives – To assess predictors of headache in patients who had sustained a head injury 22 years earlier. Materials and methods – A questionnaire about headache was sent to 361 subjects hospitalized for head injury in 1974–1975. Results – A total of 249 patients (69%) responded to the questionnaire. The prevalence of headache >14 days a month last year was 11%. In multivariate logistic regression analysis female sex (OR = 3.4, 95% CI 1.2–9.6), severe headache 3 months after the head injury (OR = 10.6, 95% CI 2.6–43.5) and psychiatric disease (OR = 2.9, 95% CI 1.1–7.7) predicted chronic headache. There was no significant association between chronic headache and post‐traumatic amnesia or other trauma‐related variables. Conclusion – Female sex and headache 3 months after the head injury were the strongest predictors of long‐term headache, while there was little association between long‐term headache and trauma variables.