If you have chronic tension headache, you get these headaches a lot. The condition counts as chronic if you get tension headaches more than 15 days a month for at least three months.

Only about 1 in 50 people get chronic tension headaches.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Schwartz BS, Stewart WF, Simon D, et al.
Epidemiology of tension-type headache.
Journal of the American Medical Association. 1998; 279: 381-383.

 

 

 

 

 

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Source:
Rokicki LA, Semenchuk EM, Bruehl S, et al.
An examination of the validity of the HIS classification system for migraine and tension-type headache in the college student population.
Headache. 1999; 39: 720-727.

 

 

 

 

 

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Source:
Rasmussen BK, Jensen R, Olesen J.
A population-based analysis of the diagnostic criteria of the International Headache Society.
Cephalalgia. 1991; 11: 129-134.

 

 

 

 

 

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Source:
Ho KH, Ong BK.
A community-based study of headache diagnosis and prevalence in Singapore.
Cephalalgia. 2003; 23: 6-13.

 

 

 

 

 

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