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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified an interesting potential future therapeutic target in primary headache disorders. They have found increased amounts of a gene associated with cluster headache, MERTK, and its ligand Gal-3, in tissue from cluster headache patients. Their study is published in the Journal of Headache and Pain.
People with cluster headaches more likely to have other illnesses
Cluster headache, sometimes known as "suicide headache", have been described as a predominantly male disease.
Over 90 per cent of cluster headache sufferers were more likely to have an additional health condition, primarily affecting the nervous and musculoskeletal systems causing persistent pain.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The proportion of individuals with multimorbidity is higher for patients with cluster headache (CH) than matched references, and multimorbidity is also associated with