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NEUROLOGY 1986;36:831
© 1986 American Academy of Neurology

A prevalence survey of 'incapacitating headache' in the People's Republic of China

Xue-ming Cheng, MD, Dewey K. Ziegler, MD, Shi-chuo Li, MD, Qin-shun Dai, MD, Vijay Chandra, MD and Bruce S. Schoenberg, MD

Beijing Neurosurgical Institute (Drs. Cheng and Li), People's Republic of China (PRC); the Department of Neurology (Dr. Ziegler), University of Kansas College of Health Sciences and Hospital, Kansas City, KS; the Neurology Department (Dr. Dai), First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, PRC; and the Neuroepidemiology Branch (Drs. Chandra and Schoenberg), Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Two Chinese populations over age 15 were surveyed as to the point prevalence of "incapacitating" headaches in an urban population of 1, 525 persons and a rural one of 1,203. Personal interviews were carried out by a team of instructed interviewers; there was 100% cooperation. In both populations, prevalence in women was twice that in men except in the urban population in the youngest age group. Prevalence in the urban was almost exactly twice that of the rural population, with the highest figure occurring in traders.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Ziegler, Department of Neurology, Kansas University Medical Center, 39th and Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66103.

Supported in part by the National Migraine Foundation and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals.

Presented in part at the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. Dallas, TX, May 1985.

Accepted for publication October 29, 1985.




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