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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Neurol. 2011 Sep 27;27(5):577–580. doi: 10.1177/0883073811420869

Table 1.

Chronic Daily Headache, Medication Overuse, and Overweight Risk

Type No. Mean Age, y Male/ Female Body Mass Index (at Risk or Overweight)
With medication overuse 100 14.0 28/72 19
Chronic tension-type headache 56 14.0
Chronic migraine 44 14.0
No medication overuse 152 14.0 73/79 28
Chronic tension-type headache 79 13.5 20
Chronic migraine 73 15.0 8

Chi-square test for differences in body mass index: 0.1753. Chi-square test for differences in gender: 0.6316. Kruskal-Wallis test for differences in age: 0.9041.