The comorbidity of headaches in pediatric epilepsy patients: How common and what types?

To estimate the prevalence and characteristics of headache in pediatric epileptic patients. This cross-sectional study was performed over 6 months period from January 2018 to June 2018 at King Abdullah Specialist Children Hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using a...

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Published in:Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Saudi Arabia), 2019-10, Vol.24 (4), p.284-289
Main Authors: Al-Gethami, Hanin, Alrifai, Muhammad T, AlRumayyan, Ahmed, AlTuwaijri, Waleed, Baarmah, Duaa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child
Children
Comorbidity
Divalproex
Epilepsy
Epilepsy - epidemiology
Female
Headache
Headache - epidemiology
Health aspects
Humans
Male
Original
Pediatrics
Prevalence
Saudi Arabia
Valproic acid
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Summary:To estimate the prevalence and characteristics of headache in pediatric epileptic patients. This cross-sectional study was performed over 6 months period from January 2018 to June 2018 at King Abdullah Specialist Children Hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using a structured questionnaire in pediatric patients with epilepsy. There were 142 patients enrolled (males, 57.7%; average age, 10.7+/-3.1 years) with idiopathic epilepsy (n=115, 81%) or symptomatic epilepsy (n=27, 19%). Additionally, patients had focal epilepsy (n=102, 72%) or generalized epilepsy (n=40, 28%), and among them, 11 had absence epilepsy. Overall, 65 (45.7%) patients had headaches compared with 3/153 (2%) in the control group (p
ISSN:1319-6138
1319-6138
DOI:10.17712/nsj.2019.4.20190043