• J Headache Pain · Jan 2018

    Editorial

    The journey from genetic predisposition to medication overuse headache to its acquisition as sequela of chronic migraine.

    • Paolo Martelletti.
    • Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. Paolo.Martelletti@uniroma1.it.
    • J Headache Pain. 2018 Jan 10; 19 (1): 2.

    AbstractMigraine remains one of the biggest clinical case to be solved among the non-communicable diseases, second to low back pain for disability caused as reported by the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Despite this, its genetics roots are still unknown. Its evolution in chronic forms hits 2-4% of the population and causes a form so far defined Medication Overuse Headache (MOH), whose pathophysiological basis have not been explained by many dedicated studies. The Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 has not recognized MOH as independent entity, but as a sequela of Chronic Migraine. This concept, already reported in previous studies, has been confirmed by the efficacy of OnabotulinumtoxinA in Chronic Migraine independently from the presence of MOH. The consistency of the current definitions of both Medication Overuse Headache and Chronic Migraine itself might be re-read on the basis of new evidences.

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