Children with headache become adults with headache

Children with frequent headaches are at an increased risk of headache and multiple physical and psychiatric symptoms in adulthood. On p 1145 Fearon and Hotopf report on the first study using prospectively collected population data (on 17 414 children) to show that children do not simply "grow out" of headaches and may actually "grow into" other somatic complaints. 8.2% of 7 year olds complained of headache compared with 14% at age 33. Children with headaches were more likely to have a mother with a chronic physical illness, or have a family member with a mental illness.    


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Relation between headache in childhood and physical and psychiatric symptoms in adulthood: national birth cohort study
Paul Fearon and Matthew Hotopf
BMJ 2001 322: 1145. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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