Features of chronic daily headache: a clinical analysis of 128 cases / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To review the clinical features of chronic daily headache (CDH).Methods The clinical data of 128 patients with chronic daily headache,including general condition,characteristics of headache,concomitant symptom and disability were analyzed retrospectively.The features of primary chronic daily headache (PCDH) and medication over-dose headache (MOH) were compared.Results Among 128 cases females accounted for 79.7％ with an average age of 45.2 years and 88 patients were associated with drug overdose.The symptoms included nausea (68/128),photophobia (75/128),phonophobia (102/ 128),depression (77/128) and irritability (93/128),sleep disorders (94/128),dizziness (75/128),emotional irritability(58/128) and depression(21/128).The migraine disability assessment questionnaire and headache impact test-6 scores showed that disability was resulted from the severe degree of headache in 62.2％ (51/82) and 73.2％ (82/112) of CDH patients respectively.Compared with PCDH patients,the MOH patients had older age (t =2.59,P =0.011),longer duration (t =2.48,P =0.015) and severer degree of headache(t =5.58,P =0.018),and chronic migraine (t =11.95.P =0.001) was the most common primary headache type.Conclusions Most CDH patients are middle-aged women,with moderate to severe pain,usually complicated with depression,dysphoria and asomnia.Chronic daily headache patients are commonly associated with drug overdose.