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Increased prevalence of significant recurrent headache in preclinical familial Alzheimer's disease mutation carriers.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2008
Ringman John M, Romano Joseph D, Medina Luis D, Rodriguez-Agudelo Yaneth, Schaffer Barbara, Varpetian Arousiak, Ortiz Freddy, Fitten L Jamie, Cummings Jeffrey L, Baloh Robert W
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: A previous study found a high prevalence of headaches in persons with familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) due to a PSEN1 mutation. In our study we compared the prevalence of headaches between nondemented FAD mutation carriers (MCs) and non-mutation-carrying controls (NCs). METHODS: A headache questionnaire that assessed the prevalence of significant headaches and diagnosis of migraine and aura by...
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