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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cephalalgia. 2011 Aug 4;31(12):1291–1300. doi: 10.1177/0333102411417466

Table 3.

Multivariate-adjusted* associations between rate of change in cognitive function by migraine and non-migraine headache status.

Cognitive Test Coefficient (SE) p-value
MMSE
 Time 0.24 (0.03) <0.01
 Migraine 0.28 (0.21) 0.18
 Migraine*Time −0.01 (0.07) 0.85
 Headache 0.33 (0.32) 0.30
 Headache*Time −0.04 (0.10) 0.68

Wechsler
 Time −1.34 (0.09) <0.01
 Migraine 1.09 (1.02) 0.28
 Migraine*Time 0.50 (0.22) 0.02
 Headache −1.32 (1.53) 0.39
 Headache*Time 0.25 (0.33) 0.44

Trail Making A
 Time 0.01 (0.05) 0.79
 Migraine −0.03 (0.24) 0.92
 Migraine*Time 0.04 (0.13) 0.76
 Headache 0.11 (0.37) 0.76
 Headache*Time −0.04 (0.20) 0.84

Trail Making B
 Time −0.07 (0.04) 0.05
 Migraine 0.22 (0.21) 0.29
 Migraine*Time 0.02 (0.09) 0.83
 Headache 0.38 (0.32) 0.24
 Headache*Time −0.13 (0.14) 0.34

Rey
 Time −1.39 (0.10) <0.01
 Migraine 3.19 (0.82) <0.01
 Migraine*Time −0.41 (0.27) 0.12
 Headache 1.66 (1.24) 0.18
 Headache*Time −0.35 (0.39) 0.36

Raven
 Time −0.11 (0.03) <0.01
 Migraine 0.36 (0.24) 0.14
 Migraine*Time −0.07 (0.08) 0.42
 Headache 0.26 (0.36) 0.48
 Headache*Time −0.14 (0.12) 0.22

Benton
 Time −3.78 (0.05) <0.01
 Migraine −0.13 (0.38) 0.73
 Migraine*Time 0.05 (0.13) 0.67
 Headache −1.06 (0.58) 0.07
 Headache*Time 0.29 (0.19) 0.14

Finger Tapping
 Time −3.49 (0.21) <0.01
 Migraine 2.53 (1.89) 0.18
 Migraine*Time −0.42 (0.54) 0.43
 Headache 1.18 (2.86) 0.68
 Headache*Time 0.15 (0.81) 0.85

Word Fluency
 Time 0.33 (0.11) <0.01
 Migraine 1.00 (0.93) 0.28
 Migraine*Time 0.24 (0.27) 0.36
 Headache 1.05 (1.32) 0.42
 Headache*Time −0.19 (0.37) 0.60
*

Adjusted for age (continuous), gender, education (age at which education was completed) and smoking status (never, past and current).

Reference group are those with no history of severe headache.