Childhood trauma linked to 48% higher chance of serious, recurrent headaches as adults

The Washington Post (11/6, Searing) reports, “People who experienced trauma as a child or adolescent were found to be 48 percent more likely to have serious and recurrent headaches as an adult than were those who had not experienced trauma in their early years.” The findings, published in Neurology, are the result of an “analysis of data from 28 studies, involving 154,739 people.” Overall, 31 percent “reported having experienced a traumatic event at least once before age 18.”

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