Headaches: consultations in primary and specialist care in the Americas 2011

This statistic displays the estimated percentage of headache consultations made in primary and specialist care in the Americas as of 2011, broken down by headache disorder. As of that year, some 28 percent of all headache consultations in the Americas were due to migraine.

Percentage of headache consultations in primary care and neurology in the Americas as of 2011, by headache disorder*

Characteristic	Primary care	Neurologists
Migraine	28%	33%
Tension-type headache (TTH)	28%	22%
Combined migraine and TTH	14%	16%
Cluster headache	3%	3%
Medication-overuse headache	10%	17%
Other secondary headache	10%	5%
Others	7%	4%

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Release date

2011

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Region

Worldwide, North America, Central and South America

Survey time period

2006 to 2009

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Supplementary notes

* The source states that information was collected in a questionnaire survey of neurologists, general practitioners and patients’ representatives from 101 countries, performed from October 2006 until March 2009. Epidemiological data were compiled from published studies through a systematic review, and supplemented by data gathered in population-based studies undertaken within the Global Campaign.

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