Sentence examples for consequence of headache from inspiring English sources

Our data should reassure patients with headache that brain tumor is not a long-term consequence of headache.

It is a relatively uncommon consequence of headache alone; when it happens, it is usually associated with frequently-recurring or unremitting intractable headache, often with co-morbidities.

Failure to have and make use of instruments for disability assessment — although disability is a major consequence of headache disorders and a range of well-validated disability instruments exists [1, 9, 12, 17, 21] — appears to be both necessary and easy to remedy.

Moreover, when the results of clinical trials are published, the proportion of patients that discontinued drug treatment as a consequence of headache should also be reported together with a detailed description of the characteristics of the symptom and of the patients.

Using a headache diary, patients recorded headache days, migraine days (defined as high intensity, lateralized pain with a significant impairment on daily activities) and the number of days on which they used symptomatic medication, particularly triptans, as well as the number of monthly visits to emergency department as a consequence of headache.

We assessed lost productive time as a consequence of headache using the HALT questionnaire [19], enquiring separately into lost paid worktime (days lost from paid employment: questions 1 and 2) and lost household worktime (days lost from home chores: questions 3 and 4).

These regions had been selected for the German DMKG Headache Study with the aim to assess prevalences and consequences of headache types in different areas of Germany [21].

We designed a questionnaire combining elements from established questionnaires and added further questions concerned with disease management and social consequences of headache.

In the original study, it was shown that HSLC predicts medication consumption, psychological consequences of headache episodes (e.g. depression and headache-related disability) and preference for treatment modality even when controlling for headache severity (frequency and intensity) in a sample of college students with recurrent headaches [5].

The mean scores were >7 (the threshold for retention) for all indicators except two: "outcome measures are based on economic consequences of headache" (mean 6.3) and "costs of the service are measured as part of a cost-effectiveness policy" (mean 6.6).

This study highlights the importance of prospective research in studying the developmental course and consequences of headache syndromes.