With their findings presented the week of June 4, 2007, at the annual meeting of the American Headache Society, lead study researcher and Swedish neurologist Carl H. Dahlöf stated that the average length of migraine incidences is about 25 years and the usual beginning of migraine headaches is about the age of 20 years.

According to the American Headache Society, about 28 million U.S. citizens suffer from migraine headaches. A migraine is a neurological disease in which the person has intense and disabling episodes of severe headaches. Most migraine headaches are characterized with severe pain often on one side of the head.

With an average age of 55 years, 374 human subjects were studied from 1994 to 2006. It was found that almost 30% of the subjects had their migraines disappear during this time period. Of these 30% of subjects, 91% of them (110) reported not having a migraine for at least two years.

The male and female subjects still reporting migraines, however, reported them less frequently, less severely, and for shorter periods.

Dahlof, who is also the medical director and founder of the Gothenburg Migraine Clinic (Gothenburg, Sweden), states that heredity may be involved with migraine headaches and that the treatment of migraines may help to eventually end their occurrence.

However, even though many people find their migraines disappear after the age range of 50 to 55 years, some people never lose them.

Updated 6/13/07--author.

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