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Prevalence of migraine among the general population, and its effect on the quality of life in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Boshra A. Bamalan, Ahlam B. Khojah, Lujain M. Alkhateeb, Ibtisam S. Gasm, Albandri A. Alahmari, Saleha A. Alafari, Marah A. Sindi and Khaled A. Yaghmour
Saudi Medical Journal October 2021, 42 (10) 1103-1108; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.10.20210575
Boshra A. Bamalan
From the Faculty of Medicine (Bamalan, Khojah, Alkhateeb, Gasm, Alahmari, Alafari, Sindi), from the Department of Family Medicine (Yaghmour), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Ahlam B. Khojah
From the Faculty of Medicine (Bamalan, Khojah, Alkhateeb, Gasm, Alahmari, Alafari, Sindi), from the Department of Family Medicine (Yaghmour), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Lujain M. Alkhateeb
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Ibtisam S. Gasm
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Albandri A. Alahmari
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Saleha A. Alafari
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Marah A. Sindi
From the Faculty of Medicine (Bamalan, Khojah, Alkhateeb, Gasm, Alahmari, Alafari, Sindi), from the Department of Family Medicine (Yaghmour), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Khaled A. Yaghmour
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vol. 42 no. 10 1103-1108
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.10.20210575
PubMed 
34611005

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 14, 2021
  • Accepted August 25, 2021
  • Published online October 4, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Boshra A. Bamalan, MBBS⇑,
  2. Ahlam B. Khojah, MBBS,
  3. Lujain M. Alkhateeb, MBBS,
  4. Ibtisam S. Gasm, MBBS,
  5. Albandri A. Alahmari, MBBS,
  6. Saleha A. Alafari, MBBS,
  7. Marah A. Sindi, MBBS and
  8. Khaled A. Yaghmour, MBBS, SBFM
  1. From the Faculty of Medicine (Bamalan, Khojah, Alkhateeb, Gasm, Alahmari, Alafari, Sindi), from the Department of Family Medicine (Yaghmour), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Boshra A. Bamalan, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: bushrabamalan{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4053-0164
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