Clinical Profile And Precipitating Factors Of Migraine In Patients Attending A Tertiary Health Care Centre.

INTRODUCTION:Headache is a common neurological complaint in the community, various types of headaches are complained by the patients which are quite different from the migraine type of headache. Migraine causes severe throbbing pain or pulsating sensations usually on one side of the head. Prevalence of migraine is gradually increasing in India. More than 213 million people in India were found to be suffering from migraine in the year 2019, among these cases 60% of the cases were reported by women. MATERIALS AND METHOD:The ground work of this project is an analytical (cross sectional) type study based. A minimum sample count of 50 migraine patients (SAMPLE SIZE:50) of any age group and gender are considered as participants in the study. In this cross sectional type of migraine study, it is based on information collection from the patients in a questionnaire format. The participants in this study are recruited from out patients of Department of Neurology, Dr. Pinnamaneni Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Foundation from August 2021 to January 2022.Information from the participants is collected by their own will without any compel to pass on this project. RESULT:Migraine is common headache that can be affective to any of the age groups, here in this study among the 50 migraine patients chosen as participants of the study, the age prevalence for the incidence of the migraine headache. By dividing all the 50 participants of the study into their respective age groups, total of four age groups have been segregated .In age group of 10 - 20 years a total of 11 participants come under this age group out of 50 migraine patients. 3 participants fall under the age group of 21 - 30 years, 25 members come under age group of 31 - 40 years, 10 participants come under 41 - 50 age group, and remaining1 person belongs to age group of 51- 60. CONCLUSION:The common risk factors mentioned by most of the participants stress, travelling, bright light, loud sounds, performing the physical activity aggravating headache. For most of the participants there is accountable functional disability with migraine. Migraine is mostly affecting female population compared with the male population, each person do have their independent set of risk factors that could lead to migraine attack [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]