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Prescribing of drugs for the treatment of migraine with specific emphasis on sumatriptan

Ilse Truter, Theunis J van W Kotze
Health SA Gesondheid | Vol 9, No 4 | a180 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v9i4.180 | © 2004 Ilse Truter, Theunis J van W Kotze | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 08 November 2004 | Published: 08 November 2004

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Ilse Truter, University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Theunis J van W Kotze,, South Africa

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Abstract

Migraine affects between 5-15% of males and 13,5-31% of females in South Africa.

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Migraine affekteer tussen 5-15% van mans en 13,5-31% van vroue in Suid-Afrika.

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