Prevalence, demographics, comorbidities, and treatment patterns of patients with the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias: a retrospective analysis of United States electronic health records.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The study of the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TAC) has been limited by difficulty aggregating sufficient numbers of patients. We used the Epic Cosmos electronic health record research platform to harness nationwide data from health care systems across the United States using the Epic electronic health record to analyze the prevalence, demographics, comorbid conditions and treatments for the TACs.

Methods

We queried the Epic Cosmos electronic health record database for patients with diagnoses of hemicrania continua, cluster headache, paroxysmal hemicrania, and SUNCT. Prevalences, demographics were determined from this database and comorbid conditions and treatments for these conditions were analyzed.

Results

Our study included 152,727 patients with clu

SUBMITTER: Moskatel LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12278493 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature