Association of hypothyroidism in patients with migraine and tension-type headache disorders in Kashmir, North India
Neurology Asia
;
: 257-261, 2015.
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in English
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| ID: wpr-628986
ABSTRACT
Objective:
This case control study was undertaken to ascertain the frequency of subclinical and overt hypothyroidism in patients with various types of primary headache disorders in Kashmir, North India.Methods:
The study was conducted in a tertiary care (university of Kashmir) hospital of North India. The study subjects consisted of 250 patients with primary headache disorders. This was compared with an age-sex matched control of 500 subjects. Thyroid function tests were performed by new automated immunochemiluminometric assay.Results:
Among patients with primary headache disorders, subclinical hypothyroidism was present in 22% and overt hypothyroidism in 7.2%. On the other hand, subclinical hypothyroidism was observed in 11.2% and overt hypothyroidism in 1.2% of cases in the control group, the differences between primary headache and control group was statistically significant (p 0.05).Conclusion:
Hypothyroidism is found to be a co-morbidity or predisposes to the development of chronic headache (tension-type headache and migraine) in this North Indian study.
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Main subject:
Headache Disorders
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Hypothyroidism
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Migraine Disorders
Type of study:
Observational study
Language:
English
Journal:
Neurology Asia
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
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