The prevalence of triggers in paediatric migraine: a questionnaire study in 102 children and adolescents

The Journal of Headache and Pain

Original

Louis Vallée¹  Jean-Christophe Cuvellier¹  Dorothée Neut¹  Antoine Fily² 

[1] Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Lille Faculty of Medicine and Children’s Hospital, Lille, France;Service de Médecine Néonatale, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, avenue Eugène Avinée, Lille cedex, France;

关键词: Migraine;    Trigger factors;    Child;    Adolescent;   

DOI  :  10.1007/s10194-011-0397-2

 received in 2011-08-18, accepted in 2011-10-12,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The prevalence and characterization of migraine triggers have not been rigorously studied in children and adolescents. Using a questionnaire, we retrospectively studied the prevalence of 15 predefined trigger factors in a clinic-based population. In 102 children and adolescents fulfilling the Second Edition of The International Headache Classification criteria for paediatric migraine, at least one migraine trigger was reported by the patient and/or was the parents’ interpretation in 100% of patients. The mean number of migraine triggers reported per subject was 7. Mean time elapsed between exposure to a trigger factor and attack onset was comprised between 0 and 3 h in 88 patients (86%). The most common individual trigger was stress (75.5% of patients), followed by lack of sleep (69.6%), warm climate (68.6%) and video games (64.7%). Stress was also the most frequently reported migraine trigger always associated with attacks (24.5%). In conclusion, trigger factors were frequently reported by children and adolescents with migraine and stress was the most frequent.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2011