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Sleep and Chronic Daily Headache

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Sleep and headache have a complex and extensive interrelationship. This review focuses on the relationship between sleep and chronic daily headache, examining recent advances in the epidemiology and insights into possible mechanisms of this relationship as well as reviewing advances in treatment. There is a clear relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and snoring and morning headache, but the relationship between OSA and snoring and other primary headaches requires clarification. OSA and chronic migraine share both obesity and patent foramen ovale (PFO) as possible co-morbidities. Hypoxia does not clearly predispose to morning headache. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is an established treatment for OSA, and mixed results have been reported with regards to headache improvement with this treatment.

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Dr. Richard James Stark declares personal fees from Allergan, Pfizer, MSD, St. Jude Medical and Janssen-Cilag.

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    Catherine Diana Stark

  2. Neurology Department, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Richard James Stark

  3. Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Richard James Stark

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    Catherine Diana Stark & Richard James Stark

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Stark, C.D., Stark, R.J. Sleep and Chronic Daily Headache. Curr Pain Headache Rep 19, 468 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-014-0468-6

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