Abstract Details

Title Do Migraineurs with Vertigo/Dizziness Display Some Common Characteristics? Results from a Population-Based Study

Topic Headache

Presentation(s) P03 - (-)

Poster/Presentation
Number 113

Objective

Background BACKGROUND: Migraine and vertigo/dizziness are both common, distressing and interrelated. They occur together 3 times more than by chance, and both impact on quality of life, but their exact relationships were not well delineated in the migrainuers.

Design/Methods DESIGN/METHODS: We designed a community- based prevalence study in adults, with face-to face interviews by specially trained general practitioners using a structured electronic questionnaire. Comprehensive interview form included diagnostic questions based on the ICHD-II criteria. The questionnaire assessed all diagnostic headache features, headache related impact, demographics, comorbidities and disability assessed by MIDAS questionnaire. Participants were asked to provide mean number of attacks and days with headache per month during last year and untreated duration of attack in hours. Descriptive statistics were applied and Chi-square test, t test and logistic regression test were used for comparisons.

Results RESULTS: 5323 participants were reviewed. Vertigo/dizziness was significantly higher in migraineurs when compared to tension type headache sufferes. There were 534 migraineurs with vertigo/dizziness (MwVD) and 337 patients without vertigo/dizziness as controls. MwVD patients established 61.3 % of definite migraineurs. MwVD patients had significantly more nausea/vomiting, more headache aggravation with head motions and had more visual aura. Frequency of headaches and pain killers used per month were also significantly high in MwVD patients. MwVD patients reported significantly more motion sickness, allergy, allodynia and osmophobia, interestingly. Furthermore MwVD patients had significantly low quality of life.

Conclusions CONCLUSIONS: Our findings showed that more than half of the migraineurs in the general population have vertigo/dizziness. These patients showed many significant differences in clinical characteristics and have low quality of life when compared to other migrainuers.

Authors/Disclosures
Gulden Akdal, MD PRESENTER	Dr. Akdal has nothing to disclose.
	No disclosure on file
Mustafa Ertas	No disclosure on file
	No disclosure on file
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