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Feedback	Hi, I was doing research for a project on headaches and thought I would try this portal. I admit, I am new to this but it looked intuitive enough that I didn't feel like I was missing something...until I was. I don't see any data on headaches? Why? Now, I'm willing to admit that maybe I put in an incorrect term. I searched for "headache/s" as that seemed a good start, but nothing came up. So, is it that I searched incorrectly or that you don't have data specifically about headaches, or some third reason I'm not sure how to verbalized? Please advise, as this may become a story in itself for me to share. Thanks.
Dataset	Healthdata.gov Catalog API
Tags	Headaches
Agency	Department of Health & Human Services

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Hello,

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/05/2018 - 10:42

Hello,

Here are a few suggestions for data about headaches.

National Health Interview Survey – representative sample of health conditions in the US population – search keyword “headache” for data tables aggregated by factors including sex, age, race, education, and more. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/shs/tables.htm

You can get access to state level data through the Research Data Center: https://www.cdc.gov/rdc/b1datatype/Dt1225.htm
MMWR “ QuickStats: Percentage* of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Reported Having a Severe Headache or Migraine in the Past 3 Months,† by Sex and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey,§ United States, 2015“ https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6624a8.htm?s_cid=mm6624a8_w

Beyond the NHIS data, some historical Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data sets have questions related to headache [0] and the most recent is 2012 [1]:

“Reactions to Race [Prologue] Within the past 30 days, have you experienced any physical symptoms, for example, a headache, an upset stomach, tensing of your muscles, or a pounding heart, as a result of how you were treated based on your race? (Variable name change) RRPHYSM2”
[0] https://chronicdata.cdc.gov/Behavioral-Risk-Factors/Behavioral-Risk-Fact...
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/annual_2012.html

National Library of Medicine PubMed Literature – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
NIH also gives out research grants to work on headaches/migraines. You can click on “headaches” on this site and see the listing of research, the abstract, and the Principal Investigator: https://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx

Hope this helps. Please let us know if you have further questions.

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