THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Research published online in February finds that lifestyle factors such as irregular eating, late chronotype, prolonged screen exposure, and frequent substance use/exposure Style behavior was found to be associated with frequent headaches in children and adolescents. .28 inch neurology.
Christel Nils, MD, PhD, of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and her colleagues studied children and adolescents aged 5 to 17 years in a large population-based health study in Canada to examine the association between lifestyle factors and recurrent headaches. I registered for the survey. There were an estimated 4,978,370 participants (mean age 10.9 years).
Overall, 6.1% of participants experienced frequent headaches. Researchers observed an association between frequent headaches and older age and female gender (odds ratios, 1.31 and 2.39, respectively). The odds of frequent headaches decreased with dietary regularity in models adjusted for age/sex (adjusted odds ratio, 0.90), with later chronotype (adjusted odds ratio, 1.10), and with excessive screening. increased with exposure (adjusted odds ratio, 2.97 for >21 hours). None in the past week). No significant association with physical activity was found. Frequent headaches were associated with frequent alcohol consumption, binge drinking, smoking, e-cigarette use, and cannabis use among 12- to 17-year-olds. Daily exposure to household smoke was associated with frequent headaches in the entire sample (adjusted odds ratio, 2.00).
“This study suggests that future studies should evaluate whether interventions aimed at addressing associated lifestyle factors are effective in reducing headache frequency. “This type of research can have important clinical and public health implications,” the authors write.
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