Headaches associated with air travel appear to be a "huge and
painful problem," Israeli researchers report.
In a study of 906 men and women who had traveled more than once
by plane, nearly 6 percent reported that they experienced headaches
associated with flying.
Based on 3.3 billion seats available each year on commercial
flights, with 70 percent occupancy, Dr. Israel Potasman and
colleagues from Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa estimate that more
than 100 million people suffer from flight-associated headaches
annually.
The vast majority of those surveyed (97 percent) said they flew
economy class.
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