Study Suggests Headache Diagnoses Linked To Increase In Attempted, Completed Suicides

MedPage Today (2/3, George ) reports “headache diagnoses were persistently associated with an increase in attempted and completed suicides, a population study of more than 100,000” patients with headache “in Denmark showed.” Researchers found that “across four types of headache – migraine, tension-type headache, post-traumatic headache, and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia – the association was robust.” The findings were published in JAMA Neurology.

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