RT - Journal Article T1 - Measurement of Frequency of Headache in 300 Patients, Visited in Special Clinic of Neurology in Sina Hospital and Outpatients Clinic of Hamadan City in 1998 JF - umsha YR - 2001 JO - umsha VO - 8 IS - 2 UR - http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-877-en.html SP - 0 EP - 0 K1 - Headache – etiology / Headache – epidemiology AB - Headache is one of the causes of calling many patients to clinics. This disease sometime becomes so persecutor that one is not able to perform the daily activities. Hence, if the kinds of headache and their causes are identified, these people can probably be helped in order to have a comfortable life. The aim if this study was determination of headache causes in the patients that had referred to Sina hospital in 1998 , with regard to headache specifications and by means of complement tests to confirm or refuse the diagnosis. After designation a questionnaire, the necessary information was collected by interview and recorded in the question. All of the patients, are visited in neurologic ward of Sina hospital. For all of the patients a brain CT-Scan and EEG were perform. This study was a descriptive study. The results showed that the most common headache was tension headache (33%) and then migraine type. The proportion of female was 37% and male was 27%. The mean age of population was 36 years and standard deviation was 16 years. Approximately 14% were due to organic causes. The most common was hypertension (21%) and then is cervical osteoarthrosis (15%). In this study , we begun to change headache algorithm by means of complement tests to refuse other diagnosis. To consider headache specifications in group of ETC and comparison with the diagnosis type, it is possible to help physicians to change and improve the post headache approach. LA eng UL http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-877-en.html M3 ER -