{"id":7381,"date":"2023-06-02T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2023-06-01T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:11:11","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-who-have-been-bothered-a-lot-by-headache-or-migraine-in-the-past-3-months-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/06\/02\/7381\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged \u226518 Years Who Have Been Bothered a Lot by Headache or Migraine in the Past 3 Months, by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7222a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7222a6-F.gif?_=48265\" width=\"472\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, 4.3% of adults aged \u226518 years reported being bothered a lot by headache or migraine in the past 3 months with the percentage among women (6.2%) higher than that among men (2.2%).<\/p>\n<p>Percentages were higher among women than men in all age groups: 7.4% versus 2.5% in adults aged 18\u201344 years, 6.7% versus 2.4% in those aged 45\u201364 years, and 3.1% versus 1.5% in those aged \u226565 years.<\/p>\n<p>Among men and women, the percentage of those bothered a lot by headache or migraine in the past 3 months was lowest among those aged \u226565 years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7222a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7222a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, 4.3% of adults aged \u226518 years reported being bothered a lot by headache or migraine in the past 3 months with the percentage among women (6.2%) higher than that among men (2.2%). Percentages were higher among women than men in all age groups: 7.4% versus 2.5% in adults aged 18\u201344 years, 6.7% versus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62316,63671,63673,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7383,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions\/7383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}