Migraine in Young People Linked to Anxiety, Depressive Disorders, Study Shows

Children and adolescents with migraine have approximately twice the risk of anxiety or depression compared with youth without migraine, according to areport in the DecemberJAMA Pediatrics.“One in 10 children and adolescents experience migraine and, across the life span, it is the second most prevalent and disabling disease worldwide,” wrote Katherine Falla, M.D., of the University of Calgary and colleagues. “These results have critical implications for clinical practice, unders coring the need to screen all children and adolescents with migraine for anxiety and depression.”The researchers searched the medical literature for case-control, cohort, and cross-sectional studies assessing the association between internalizing symptoms and/or disorders (such as anxiety and depression) and migraine in children and adolescents aged 18 years or younger. Eighty studies were included in the final analysis.The researchers found that children with migraine had double the odds of having anxiety and depressive disorders compared with healthy controls. Moreover, in studies that pooled results for anxiety and depressive disorders, young people with migraine were more than four times as likely to have mixed anxiety and/or depressive disorders, according Falla and colleagues.In an accompanyingeditorial, Jessica Hauser Chatterjee, M.D., Ph.D., and Heidi K. Blume, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Washington School of Medicine noted that combination treatment with fluoxetine and cognitive...
Source: Psychiatr News - Category: Psychiatry Tags: adolescents anxiety children depression JAMA Pediatrics meta-analysis migraine review youth Source Type: research