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Migraine in adolescents: towards an easy-to-use screening tool

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boxed-textZarifoğlu M et al. (2008) Can ID Migraine be used as a screening test for adolescent migraine? Cephalalgia 28: 65–71

Although ID Migraine® has excellent attributes for use in the adult primary care population, clinicians should take caution before using ID Migraine® as a screening tool in adolescents

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  1. ME Bigal is the Global Director for Scientific Affairs in Neuroscience at Merck Research Laboratories, Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA, and an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,

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  2. RB Lipton is Professor of Neurology, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, and the Lotti and Bernard Benson Faculty Scholar, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.,

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Marcelo Bigal is a consultant for Allergan, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, MAP Pharmaceuticals, Merck, NMT Medical and Pfizer; he has received speaker's honoraria and grant/research support from Allergan, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and Pfizer, and is the Global Director for Scientific Affairs at Merck.

Richard Lipton is a consultant for Advanced Bionics, Allergan, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol–Myers Squibb, Cierra, Endo Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Neuralieve, Novartis, Ortho-McNeil, Pfizer, POZEN and ProEthics. He has received speaker's honoraria from Allergan, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Minster (in the form of stock), Merck, Neuralieve, Novartis, Ortho–McNeil and Pfizer, and research grants from Advanced Bionics, Allergan, GlaxoSmithKline, Minster, Merck, Neuralieve, Ortho–McNeil, Pfizer, ProEthics and St Jude Medical.

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