Hence, this overall prevalence is reported for any location, in addition to location-specific prevalences for which the responses on neck and shoulders were combined (neck/shoulder), as were those on arms/elbows and hands/wrists (upper extremity).
According to the South African antenatal sentinel survey of 2011, 37% of women attending antenatal care in KwaZulu-Natal were HIV-positive and in the district where this study was conducted, the prevalence was reported to be 42%.
In Taiwan, the prevalence was reported to be 9.6% [ 1].
Among non-pregnant women the prevalence was reported at 55 per cent while among men it was 28 per cent.
Clinical signs prevalence is reported in Table 1.
A greater prevalence is reported in Africans and African descendent groups than in Caucasians and Hispanics.
The same prevalence is reported from Nigeria, Kenya and Cameroon[ 33].
It is worth mentioning, other studies based on clinical observation on the disease were made around Nekemet which is close to this study area and, 7 % prevalence was reported [ 43].
The migraine prevalence was reported to be between 12.4 and 21.9 % in Turkey using self-reporting measures [1, 2, 19].
