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Objectives

According to data of WHO primary headaches have substantial burden on patients and their family life and also, they consist serious social-economic problem for all world. This is why many studies addressed toward investigation of different types of primary headaches.

Aim

Aim of our study was investigation of prevalence of different types of primary headaches (tension type, migraine, trigeminal-autonomic cephalalgias) between patient who addressed to neurologist because of headache.

Material and Methods

We included 150 patients (113 women/ 37 men) with different primary headaches (migraine, tension type and trigeminal-autonomic cephalgia"s) who addressed at Neurology department of 2-nd Medical Union. Age of participants was 18-60 years All patients was estimated by neurologist specialized in headache field and diagnosis was done according to ICHD 3 diagnostic criteria.

Results

Data analysis revealed that 90 (60%) has migraine, 47 (31%) tension type, 7 (5%) cluster headache, 4 (3%) paroxysmal hemicrania, 1 (1%) hemicrania continua and 1 (1%) SUNCT –syndrom. Main part of patient (91 patient) was adressed to doctors previously (68 from which adressed to neurologists) and unfortunatly main part of them was misdiagnosed.

Conclusion

All together our data a little bit different from such data of international studies, but we suppose that mean cause of this , that we used choosen population and not a random sample. By analyzing our data, we conclude that in our region there is serious underestimation of all types of primary headaches as among different specialists and also among people. Main part of patients didn"t receive correct diagnosis and further corresponding treatment for many years. We need to increase attention toward headaches and spread knowledges among people and specialists and realize more detailed investigations for estimation of real prevalence of different type of primary headaches in Armenia.