THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Irregular eating, late chronotype, prolonged screen exposure, and frequent substance use/exposure, according to research published online in February. Lifestyle behaviors were found to be associated with frequent headaches in children and adolescents. .28 inch neurology.
Christelle 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 study in Canada to examine the association between lifestyle factors and frequently recurring headaches. I enrolled in a health 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) and as chronotype became later (adjusted odds ratio, 1.10) of screen exposure (adjusted odds ratio, 2.97 vs. 2.97 for >21 hours). (none in the past week); no significant association was found with physical activity. 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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