Over 600 million people aged 18-65 will have headache tomorrow: global 1-day prevalence and recall bias from a meta-analysis of individual participant data (N = 38,512) from the general populations of
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- Meta-analysis of 38,512 participants from 15 countries reveals 13.7% had headache on the prior day.
- Migraine is most common at 6.0%, followed by tension-type headache (4.1%) and probable medication-overuse headache (2.3%).
- Headache prevalence is higher in females (17.1%) compared to males (9.7%).
- Observed 1-day prevalence (13.7%) exceeds predicted values, suggesting recall bias in self-reported frequency.
- Globally, an estimated 641.9 million adults (13.1%) are projected to experience headache daily.