Study Data from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Update Understanding of Headache (Age- and sex-specific first health care use for migraine in 2016 in children and adolescents from prospectively collected health insurance data in Germany)

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2019 APR 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Nervous System Diseases and Conditions - Headache have been published. According to news reporting originating from Munich, Germany, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Migraine in children and adolescents is associated with significant disability and a high risk of persistence into adulthood. Data on migraine incidence in children and adolescents are few and relatively coarse.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, “To tailor interventions starting shortly after disease onset, detailed information on age-and sex-specific incidence of migraine in children and adolescents is needed. We used health care data prospectively collected by the BARMER statutory health insurance, representing ∼11% of the German population. The incidence of migraine diagnoses (International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 code G43) in the year 2016 was assessed in subjects aged 0-19 years, who had been continuously insured with the BARMER between 2005 and 2016 or during their entire lifespan. Data from ∼1.2 million children and adolescents were available. The incidence of migraine diagnoses steadily increased with age, reaching ∼1% per year around the age of 10 for both sexes, and 3.49% per year in females and 1.72% per year in males at the age of 19. Incidences in males and females were similar up to the age of 13 and higher in females from there on. The proportion of incident migraine diagnoses specified as ‘definite’ versus ‘probable’ migraine increased with age. The present study provides a representative estimation of the first documented health care use for migraine in children and adolescents in Germany within 1-year age bins, separately for boys and girls.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “These data will be helpful for tailoring early healthcare interventions to reduce disability and prevent migraine chronification.”

For more information on this research see: Age- and sex-specific first health care use for migraine in 2016 in children and adolescents from prospectively collected health insurance data in Germany. Cephalalgia, 2019;():033310241984454. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Cephalalgia - cep.sagepub.com)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting L. Albers, 1 Institute of Social Paediatrics and Adolescents Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. Additional authors for this research include R.V. Kries, A. Straube, F. Heinen, M.N. Landgraf, V. Obermeier and R. Ruscheweyh.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/0333102419844543. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.