Does a History of Maternal Migraine or Depression Predispose Children to Headache and Stomach-ache?

doi:10.1111/j.1526-4610.1992.hed3207353.x

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Wiley InterScience

Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain

Volume 32 Issue 7, Pages 353 - 355

Published Online: 19 May 2005

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Does a History of Maternal Migraine or Depression Predispose Children to Headache and Stomach-ache?

M. J. Mortimer , M.R.C.G.P., D.P.D. ¹ J. Kay , M.R.C.G.P ¹ A. Jaron , M.R.C.G.P. ¹ P. A. Good , B.Sc. ²

¹ Sherwood House, Sherwood Road, Bear Wood, Smethwick, Warley, West Midlands B67 5DE, UK ² Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, Church Street, Birmingham B3 2NS, UK

Financial support: Scientific Foundation Board of the Royal College of General Practitioner's, London, UK

KEYWORDS

migraine • depression • mother • stomach-ache • headache • epidemiology

ABSTRACT

SYNOPSIS

The Incidence of the life time history of both maternal mi-graine and depression were assessed in children with headache, migraine, recurrent abdominal pain and abdominal migraine. An epidemiological survey of 1,104 children registered with a general practice was undertaken. The Incidence of maternal migraine and depression agreed with previous estimates. Children with migraine had a greater proportion of mothers with a history of migraine than those who experienced headache alone compared with controls. The survey showed that mothers with depression predisposed their children to headache but not specifically migraine. A history of maternal depression and migraine was significantly more common and proportionately higher in children with abdominal migraine and recurrent abdominal pain.

Accepted for publication: March 20, 1992

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