Reassessing pediatric migraine disability: Toward an updated assessment tool in the era of novel therapeutics

Reassessing pediatric migraine disability: Toward an updated assessment tool in the era of novel therapeuticsWe read with great interest the recent article by Murphy et al. entitled "Anxiety, depression, and headache-related disability in a large pediatric clinic-based sample" published in Headache. 1 In a cohort of more than 9000 patients, they showed that self-reported anxietyalone or with depression-is linked to a clinically meaningful increase in Pediatric Migraine Disability Assessment Score (PedMIDAS) scores, even after adjusting for headache severity, frequency, and phenotype.