Objectives: Headache is one of the most common complaints in medicine. Epidemiological
and population-based studies reported that migraine has a variable prevalence worldwide.
This study was done to estimate the prevalence of migraine across various age groups in
Assiut district, Egypt. Methods: This is a door-to-door study. It included 4700 randomly
selected individuals. Results: Headache was reported in 1668 subjects (35.49%), of them,
87.65%(n= 1462) had primary headaches. Migraine prevalence was 10.51% with female-to-
male ratio of 2.4: 1 particularly in ages of 20–40 years. The mean age of patients was
31.46±13.39 years and age at onset was 24.16±12.10 years. Nearly, 63.5% had frequent
attacks, 65.2% of the attacks were severe enough to stop daily activities and lasted for> 1
day in 32.5% of females compared to 40.7% and 14.5% for males. Chronic or daily