Clinical characteristics of combined rosacea and migraine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An overlap between the skin disease rosacea and the headache disease migraine has been established; however, the magnitude of this overlap and the distribution between subtypes/phenotypes remains unclear.

Objective

The aim was to determine the magnitude of the overlap between rosacea and migraine, and to determine which subtypes/phenotypes were present in patients with concomitant rosacea and migraine.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, 604 patients with a diagnosis of either rosacea or migraine were phenotyped through a face-to-face interview with clinical examination, to determine prevalence and phenotype of rosacea, and prevalence and subtype of migraine.

Results

We found a prevalence of migraine of 54% in patients with rosacea, and a prevalen

SUBMITTER: Wienholtz NKF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9635264 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature