VIDEO: Migraine prevalence stable, burden on rise throughout U.S.

DENVER — Although migraine prevalence has remained stable over the past 30 years, measures of burden, including MIDAS scores, have steadily increased, Fred Cohen, MD, said at the American Headache Society’s annual scientific meeting.

“We have two schools of thought,” Cohen, a headache medicine fellow at the Jefferson Headache Center in Philadelphia, said. “This could just be an artificial result from changes in methodology in studies. ... Or is it a change in treatment patterns, a change in patients using more or less opiates or cultural changes? That’s what we aim to see — is it one or the other?”