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Habitual snoring as a risk factor for chronic daily headache

From the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry (Dr. Scher), National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Departments of Neurology, Epidemiology, and Social Medicine (Dr. Lipton), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Dr. Stewart), Baltimore, MD; and Innovative Medical Research (Dr. Stewart), Hunt Valley, MD.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Scher, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Gateway Building, Suite 3C-309, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, MSC 9205, Bethesda, MD 20892-9205; e-mail: schera{at}mail.nih.gov

Frequent headache is associated with a variety of sleep disorders. The authors compared the prevalence of snoring in a group of chronic daily headache (CDH) subjects (n = 206) with a control group of episodic headache subjects (n = 507). Habitual snoring was more common in the CDH subjects than in the control subjects (24 vs 14%; p < 0.05); the difference remained after adjusting for factors related to sleep-disordered breathing (OR = 2.9; p < 0.005). If this association proves causal, sleep-disordered breathing may provide a target for therapeutic interventions for chronic daily headache.

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