Prevalence of headache in Europe: a review for the Eurolight project

Table 3 Studies on the prevalence of tension-type headache

Country (year)	Reference	Time frame	Method	N	Age range (years)	TTH			Chronic TTH
Country (year)	Reference	Time frame	Method	N	Age range (years)	M	F	Total	M	F	Total
Adults
Croatia (2001, 2003)	Zivadinov [49]	L.t.	P.i.	3,794	15–65	32.3	37.1	34.8
Denmark (1991)	Rasmussen [10]	1-y	P.i.	740	25–64	63	86	74
Denmark (1991)	Rasmussen [10]	L.t.	P.i.	740	25–64	69	88	78			3.0
Denmark (2005)	Lyngberg [36]	1-y	P.i.	207	25–36	81.5	90.4	86.5			4.8
Denmark (2006)	Russell [44]	1-y	Q	28,195	12–41	78.9	92.5	86.0	0.5	1.3	0.9
Georgia (2009)	Katsarava [12]	1-y	P.i.	1,145	≥16			37.3			3.8
Germany (1994)	Gobel [52]	L.t.	Q	4,061	≥18	37	39	38	3.0	3.0	3.0
Germany (2009)	Pfaffenrath [61]	6-m	P.i.	7,417	≥20			31.5			1.25
Germany (2009)	Radke [62]	1-y	T.i.	7,341	≥18	53.0	66.6	60.2
Norway (2008)	Grande [22]	1-y	Q	20,598	30–44				1.6	3.7	2.8
Portugal (2005)	Pereira Monteiro [53]	L.t.	Q	2,008	All ages			48.7			4.1
Turkey (2003)	Koseoglu [89]	1-y	P.i.	1,146	45–64		18.8				6.3
Children/youth
Finland (2002)	Anttila [90]	N.s.	Q	1,135	12			12.2			0
Germany (2007)	Fendrich [84]	3-m	Q	3,324	12–15	19.1	21.2	20.2			0.2
Norway (2004)	Zwart [19]	1-y	Q	8,255	13–19	12.5	23.2	18.0
Serbia (2007)	Milanovic [73]	L.t.	P.i.	1,259	7–12	0.9	1.7	1.3
Sweden (2004)	Laurell [33]	1-y	Q	1,850	7–15	7.9	11.8	9.8
Turkey (2005)	Bugdayci [75]	N.s.	P.i.	5,777	8–16			24.7			1.5
Turkey (2004)	Kaynak Key [91]	N.s.	Q	2,226	17–21	14.3	22.7	20.35	0.8	2.8	1.9
Turkey (2006)	Unalp [77]	1-y	Q	2,384	14–18			5.7

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