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In this retrospective chart review, researchers describe demographics, comorbidities, and clinical features of acute headache in pregnant women who received a neurological consultation for headache at one hospital between 2009 and 2014. Additionally, the authors sought to identify salient characteristics that may distinguish primary and secondary headaches in this population.
Of the 140 women studied, most (56.4%) were in the third trimester of pregnancy. Those presenting with primary versus secondary headaches did not differ in age, race, or number of pregnancies. Ultimately, 65% were diagnosed with a primary headache, most frequently migraine (59.3% of the overall sample and 91.2% of those with primary headache). Unsurprisingly, depression…