Over 600 million people aged 18–65 will have headache tomorrow: global 1-day prevalence and recall bias from a meta-analysis of individual participant data (N = 38,512) from the general populations of 15 countries

Andreas Kattem Husøy, Shengyuan Yu, Ruozhuo Liu, Akbar A. Herekar, Bilal Ahmed, Arif D. Herekar, Callixte Kuate Tegueu, Anastase Dzudie Tamdja, Annick Mélanie Magnerou, Najib Kissani, Latifa Adarmouch, Thierry Adoukonou, Mendinatou Agbetou, Oyéné Kossi, Mehila Zebenigus, Redda Tekle-Haimanot, Dawit K. Worku, Girish N. Rao, Girish B. Kulkarni, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Mohammed Al Jumah, Ali M. Al Khathaami, Suliman Kojan, Guiovanna Quispe, Carlos Palomino-Diaz, Youssoufa Maiga, Robert P. Cowan, Mattias Linde, Ajay Risal, Debashish Chowdhury, Krishnan Anand, Ashish Duggal, Otgonbayar Luvsannorov, Dorjkhand Baldorj, Selenge Enkhtuya, Ilya Ayzenberg, Zaza Katsarava, Gretchen L. Birbeck, Daiva Rastenytė, Lars Jacob Stovner, Timothy J. Steiner

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DOI: 10.1186/s10194-026-02359-2
Published: 2026-05-25
Container: The Journal of Headache and Pain
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@article{allodium:10.1186/s10194-026-02359-2,
  title = {Over 600 million people aged 18–65 will have headache tomorrow: global 1-day prevalence and recall bias from a meta-analysis of individual participant data (N = 38,512) from the general populations of 15 countries},
  author = {Andreas Kattem Husøy and Shengyuan Yu and Ruozhuo Liu and Akbar A. Herekar and Bilal Ahmed and Arif D. Herekar and Callixte Kuate Tegueu and Anastase Dzudie Tamdja and Annick Mélanie Magnerou and Najib Kissani and Latifa Adarmouch and Thierry Adoukonou and Mendinatou Agbetou and Oyéné Kossi and Mehila Zebenigus and Redda Tekle-Haimanot and Dawit K. Worku and Girish N. Rao and Girish B. Kulkarni and Gopalkrishna Gururaj and Mohammed Al Jumah and Ali M. Al Khathaami and Suliman Kojan and Guiovanna Quispe and Carlos Palomino-Diaz and Youssoufa Maiga and Robert P. Cowan and Mattias Linde and Ajay Risal and Debashish Chowdhury and Krishnan Anand and Ashish Duggal and Otgonbayar Luvsannorov and Dorjkhand Baldorj and Selenge Enkhtuya and Ilya Ayzenberg and Zaza Katsarava and Gretchen L. Birbeck and Daiva Rastenytė and Lars Jacob Stovner and Timothy J. Steiner},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {The Journal of Headache and Pain},
  doi = {10.1186/s10194-026-02359-2},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s10194-026-02359-2}
}

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TI  - Over 600 million people aged 18–65 will have headache tomorrow: global 1-day prevalence and recall bias from a meta-analysis of individual participant data (N = 38,512) from the general populations of 15 countries
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AU  - Shengyuan Yu
AU  - Ruozhuo Liu
AU  - Akbar A. Herekar
AU  - Bilal Ahmed
AU  - Arif D. Herekar
AU  - Callixte Kuate Tegueu
AU  - Anastase Dzudie Tamdja
AU  - Annick Mélanie Magnerou
AU  - Najib Kissani
AU  - Latifa Adarmouch
AU  - Thierry Adoukonou
AU  - Mendinatou Agbetou
AU  - Oyéné Kossi
AU  - Mehila Zebenigus
AU  - Redda Tekle-Haimanot
AU  - Dawit K. Worku
AU  - Girish N. Rao
AU  - Girish B. Kulkarni
AU  - Gopalkrishna Gururaj
AU  - Mohammed Al Jumah
AU  - Ali M. Al Khathaami
AU  - Suliman Kojan
AU  - Guiovanna Quispe
AU  - Carlos Palomino-Diaz
AU  - Youssoufa Maiga
AU  - Robert P. Cowan
AU  - Mattias Linde
AU  - Ajay Risal
AU  - Debashish Chowdhury
AU  - Krishnan Anand
AU  - Ashish Duggal
AU  - Otgonbayar Luvsannorov
AU  - Dorjkhand Baldorj
AU  - Selenge Enkhtuya
AU  - Ilya Ayzenberg
AU  - Zaza Katsarava
AU  - Gretchen L. Birbeck
AU  - Daiva Rastenytė
AU  - Lars Jacob Stovner
AU  - Timothy J. Steiner
PY  - 2026
JO  - The Journal of Headache and Pain
DO  - 10.1186/s10194-026-02359-2
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Husøy, A. K., Yu, S., Liu, R., Herekar, A. A., Ahmed, B., Herekar, A. D., Tegueu, C. K., Tamdja, A. D., Magnerou, A. M., Kissani, N., Adarmouch, L., Adoukonou, T., Agbetou, M., Kossi, O., Zebenigus, M., Tekle-Haimanot, R., Worku, D. K., Rao, G. N., Kulkarni, G. B., Gururaj, G., Jumah, M. A., Khathaami, A. M. A., Kojan, S., Quispe, G., Palomino-Diaz, C., Maiga, Y., Cowan, R. P., Linde, M., Risal, A., Chowdhury, D., Anand, K., Duggal, A., Luvsannorov, O., Baldorj, D., Enkhtuya, S., Ayzenberg, I., Katsarava, Z., Birbeck, G. L., Rastenytė, D., Stovner, L. J., & Steiner, T. J. (2026). Over 600 million people aged 18–65 will have headache tomorrow: global 1-day prevalence and recall bias from a meta-analysis of individual participant data (N = 38,512) from the general populations of 15 countries. The Journal of Headache and Pain. https://doi.org/10.1186/s10194-026-02359-2

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