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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Headache. 2015 Apr 22;55(5):646–657. doi: 10.1111/head.12571

Table 1. Maternal socioeconomic and anthropometric characteristics according to categories of maternal migraines status, in Lima, Peru, 2014 (N = 1062).

No Migraine
(N = 866)
n (%)
Yes Migraine
(N = 196)
n (%)
P-value*
Maternal age (years) 28.5 ± 6.3 29.0 ±5.5 0.37
Maternal age (years)
 <19 41 (4.7) 2 (1.0) 0.08
 20-29 452 (52.2) 109 (55.6)
 30-34 202 (23.3) 49 (25.0)
 ≥35 171 (19.8) 36 (18.4)
Primiparous 314 (36.3) 47 (24.0) 0.001
Single or living alone/divorced 117 (13.5) 17 (8.7) 0.15
Employed during pregnancy 279 (32.2) 60 (30.6) 0.66
Smoking during pregnancy 12 (1.4) 0 (0.0) ---
Drinking during pregnancy 20 (2.3) 7 (3.6) 0.31
Women education in years
 ≤6 25 (2.9) 9 (4.6) 0.45
 7-12 465 (53.7) 101 (51.5)
 >12 376 (43.4) 86 (43.9)
Difficulties to pay basics
 Very hard/hard 128 (14.8) 31 (15.8) 0.54
 Somewhat hard 293 (33.8) 62 (31.6)
 Not very hard 444 (51.3) 102 (52.0)
Difficulties to pay medical care
 Very hard/hard 161 (18.6) 43 (21.9) 0.65
 Somewhat hard 604 (69.8) 131 (66.8)
 Not very hard 100 (11.5) 22 (11.2)
Pre-pregnancy BMI (kg/m2) 25.0 ± 3.7 25.4 ± 4.4 0.22
Pre-pregnancy BMI (kg/m2)
 <25 (Normal weight) 485 (56.0) 104 (53.1) 0.06
 25-29.9 (Overweight) 298 (34.4) 62 (31.6)
 ≥30 (Obese) 83 (9.6) 30 (15.3)
Pregnancy BMI at OGTT (kg/m2) 27.5 ± 3.7 27.6 ± 3.9 0.73
Gestational age at interview (weeks) 25.5 ± 1.2 25.5 ± 1.2 0.85

Data were presented in mean ± standard deviation (SD) or number (%).

*

Chi-square test /Fisher's Exact test ;

Student's t test