2023-10-13 17:00:08
Some types of headaches, such as migraines, migraines or headaches, are nervous system disorders most common, painful and disabling. These affect 75 percent of the world’s adult population.
Approximately 50 percent of the affected population resorts to self-medication38 percent have been evaluated by a doctor and 10 percent receive treatment by a neurology specialist.
Despite treatments for this health problem, these types of headaches are among the 20 most disabling diseases worldwide and, due to their recurrence, they impact the quality of life of patients.
Headaches are due to personal and social problems
These headaches are associated with social and personal problems and can also be caused by many disorders such as excessive consumption of painkillers.
Between 50 and 75 percent of people ages 18 to 65 have experienced a headache. Of this percentage, 30 percent or more have suffered migraine and around 4 percent have chronic headaches.
Headaches are twice as common in women as in men, due to hormonal influences. The discomfort can last a few hours or days and the most characteristic symptom is the nausea it causes in the patient.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased headaches
The coronavirus pandemic has increased the frequency of headaches among the Mexican population and not only due to the disease, but also due to the stress and the constant anxiety in which people have lived since then.
Regarding this, Idelfonso Rodríguez-Leyva, head of neurology at the Central Hospital of San Luis Potosí, in Mexico, “the stress and anxiety that has been constant in the population has led to an increase in the frequency of headaches, coupled with the fact that those who suffer from COVID-19 can develop chronic migraine“.
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