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Many children who have experienced mild traumatic brain injury suffer from headaches afterwards, new research has shown.

A study published online in journal Pediatrics revealed that three months after a traumatic brain injury, 43 per cent of children reported headaches.

This compares to 37 per cent of those with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury and just 26 per cent of children in a control group, who had arm fractures rather than brain injury.

Furthermore, the risk of headache was also found to be higher in adolescents aged 13 to 17 and in girls.

Study leader Dr Heidi Blume commented: "With future research, we can begin to examine whether there are similarities in the cause of migraine and post-traumatic headache, and if migraine therapies will work for post-traumatic headaches."

This follows a US study which revealed children from minority groups are less likely to undergo a CT scan to detect brain injury after attending an emergency department than their white counterparts.

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