Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients.

Characteristics	VM (n = 38) Mean ± SD	HCs (n = 33) Mean ± SD	p value
Sex (male/female)*	6/32	5/28	0.94
Age (years)	38.34 ± 11.70	38.15 ± 11.94	0.94
Education (years)	14.26 ± 3.39	14.87 ± 2.49	0.39
Disease duration (years)	7.76 ± 10.59
VM episode frequency (number)	5.68 ± 3.51
VAS score	5.07 ± 2.73
MIDAS score	49.39 ± 40.25
HIT-6 score	57.71 ± 8.08
DHI score	44.32 ± 16.21

*Chi-square test.