Migraine patients often suffer unnecessarily because their ailment is wrongly diagnosed, scientists criticised at the 16th annual meeting of the European Neurological Society.
Interesting data that emerged included: 92% of women suffered from tension headaches at least occasionally, and more than one third of patients with migraine were not diagnosed accurately.
Current data on the extent of tension-type headaches was presented by a Norwegian research group, headed by Prof. Michael Bjorn Russell from department of Neurology, Akershus University Hospital, Oslo (Norway).
The extreme prevalence of complaints must have consequences, claimed Prof. Russell: “The research and the management of tensiontype headaches require much greater attention than has been paid previously.”
