Table 2.

Sex-specific lifetime prevalence rates of migraine, migraine with aura (MA) and migraine without aura (MO) in 1994 (28 571 subjects aged 11–41 years) and 2002 (31 865 subjects aged 20–71 years)

	Migraine			MA			MO
	Rate (%)	95% CI	n, crude	Rate (%)	95% CI	n, crude	Rate (%)	95% CI	n, crude
1994
All subjects	16.1	15.6 to 16.6	4593	4.8	4.5 to 5.0	1368	11.3	10.9 to 11.7	3225
Women	20.5	19.8 to 21.3	3031	6.5	6.1 to 6.9	963	14.0	13.4 to 14.6	2068
Men	11.3	10.8 to 11.9	1562	2.9	2.7 to 3.2	405	8.4	7.9 to 8.9	1157
2002
All subjects	25.2	24.7 to 25.8	8044	9.7	9.3 to 10.0	3086	15.6	15.1 to 16.0	4958
Women	32.4	31.6 to 33.3	5597	13.1	12.6 to 13.7	2265	19.3	18.7 to 20.0	3332
Men	16.8	16.1 to 17.4	2447	5.6	5.2 to 6.0	821	11.1	10.6 to 11.7	1626