occurs in all age groups, even younger than 5 years (1)
migraine has a 1-year prevalence of about 7% among school-age children (2)
migraine occurs in 3% to 10% of children and increases with age up to puberty (3)
migraine affects boys and girls similarly before puberty, but girls are more likely to suffer from migraine afterwards (3)
migraine spontaneously remits after puberty in half of children, but if it begins during adolescence, it may be more likely to persist throughout adulthood (3)
variable frequency of attacks, 20% have 2 to 3 attacks per week (1)
variable duration however the majority are less than 5 hours(1)
children experience all the different types of migraine:
hemianopic aura are rarer
vertebrobasilar syndromes more common
first degree relatives of subjects with migraine have a 1.9 times higher risk of developing migraine compared to the general population and the concordance rate for migraine with aura in monozygotic twins is 34% compared to 12% in dizygotic twins (4)
Reference
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Ashina M. Migraine. N Engl J Med 2020;383:1866-76. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1915327
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