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Migrainous headache--the diagnosis that describes patients who meet most but not all of the International Headache Society's strict diagnostic criteria for migraine--may afflict 3% of the population, based on the results of an epidemiologic study
By International Headache Society (IHS) criteria, patients are considered to have migrainous headache if their headache pain is unilateral and pulsating. Alternatively, they also meet diagnostic criteria for migrainous headache even if their headache pain is neither unilateral nor pulsating, so long as their head pain is associated with nausea or vomiting or sensitivity to light and ...