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Study: migraine underdiagnosed in HMO population.(Clinical Rounds)
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Even in a health maintenance organization, few patients with migraine are identified, diagnosed, and treated--even fewer than previous epidemiologic studies of the population have suggested, Marcelo E. Bigal, M.D., reported during the annual meeting of the American Headache Society.
Population studies have suggested that about half of individuals with migraine never get any diagnosis. But in a survey of 8,579 health-plan enrollees who had seen a physician in the past year, Dr. Bigal and his colleagues found that just 15% of persons who would meet criteria for a definite migraine diagnosis had ever been diagnosed. And only 2% of those who could have been diagnosed with probable migraine (meeting three but not four of the criteria of the International Headache Society classification system) were diagnosed.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Study: migraine underdiagnosed in HMO population.(Clinical Rounds)