Focus on headache as an adverse reaction to drugs
| Autor: | Anna Ferrari, Daniela Gallesi, Luca Spaccapelo, Emilio Sternieri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions Side effect Headache Disorders Migraine Disorders Population Adverse drug reaction Clinical Neurology Cluster Headache Review Article Pharmacovigilance Quality of life (healthcare) Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems Humans Medicine Drug Interactions education Adverse effect Intensive care medicine Migraine Clinical Trials as Topic education.field_of_study Dose-Response Relationship Drug business.industry Tension-Type Headache Headache General Medicine Classification medicine.disease Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Anesthesia Neurology (clinical) Headaches medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Headache and Pain |
| ISSN: | 1129-2377 1129-2369 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10194-009-0127-1 |
| Popis: | There are a large number of drugs inducing headache as an adverse reaction. Nevertheless, headaches as adverse reactions to drugs have received limited attention. Non-serious adverse reactions, such as headache, are not quantified and described as accurately as serious, life threatening ones. However, non-serious reactions can also be extremely troublesome, above all when they are chronic: they can affect patients' quality of life and contribute to non-compliance. It is absolutely possible that the number of patients with headache as an adverse reaction, which is going to increase, considering the growing use of medications. Physicians should, therefore, be aware of this issue. Indeed, it is difficult to attribute the diagnosis of adverse drug reaction to a condition, headache, which is also a very common symptom in general population. |
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