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Pediatric and Adolescent Headache and Obesity

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Headache and Comorbidities in Childhood and Adolescence

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Childhood obesity and headaches are critical health problems that often have a marked impact on personality and social interactions that, if not addressed, can carry over into adulthood [1, 2]. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize current knowledge regarding these issues and the potential relationships between them.

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  1. Pediatric Headache Clinic, Day Hospitalization Department, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel

    Tal Eidlitz-Markus

  2. Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Tal Eidlitz-Markus

  3. Juvenile Headache Centre, Department of Woman’s and Child’s Health, University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Irene Toldo

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  2. University of São Paulo , Neuropsychiatry, Glia Institute , Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

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  3. Neurology, Algology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Mersin University School of Medicine, Mersin, Adana, Turkey

    Aynur Ozge

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Eidlitz-Markus, T., Toldo, I. (2017). Pediatric and Adolescent Headache and Obesity. In: Guidetti, V., Arruda, M., Ozge, A. (eds) Headache and Comorbidities in Childhood and Adolescence. Headache. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54726-8_16

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