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. 2017 Mar 24;10:689–698. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S124683

Table 1.

Demographics and health characteristics among migraineurs with or without N/V

Demographics and health characteristics Migraineurs
*p-value
Total
N=7,855
With N/V
(n=4,528)
Without N/V
(n=3,327)
Age, mean (SD), years 41.81 (14.04) 41.17 (13.19) 42.70 (15.07) <0.001
Gender, n (%) Female 5,766 (73.4) 3,736 (82.5) 2,030 (61.0) <0.001
Male 2,089 (26.6) 792 (17.5) 1,297 (39.0)
Race/ethnicity, n (%) Non-Hispanic white 5,635 (71.7) 3,409 (75.3) 2,226 (66.9) <0.001
Non-Hispanic black 789 (10.0) 310 (6.8) 479 (14.4)
Hispanic 811 (10.3) 438 (9.7) 373 (11.2)
Other ethnicity 620 (7.9) 371 (8.2) 249 (7.5)
Education, n (%) Less than 4-year degree 4,927 (62.7) 2,867 (63.3) 2,060 (61.9) 0.205
4-year degree or higher 2,928 (37.3) 1,661 (36.7) 1,267 (38.1)
Annual household income, n (%) <US$25,000 1,734 (22.1) 1,012 (22.3) 722 (21.7) 0.007
US$25,000–US$50,000 2,175 (27.7) 1,311 (29.0) 864 (26.0)
US$50,000–US$75,000 1,563 (19.9) 893 (19.7) 670 (20.1)
US$75,000 or more 1,912 (24.3) 1,043 (23.0) 869 (26.1)
Declined to answer 471 (6.0) 269 (5.9) 202 (6.1)
BMI category, n (%) Underweight 182 (2.3) 113 (2.5) 69 (2.1) 0.019
Normal weight 2,625 (33.4) 1,492 (33.0) 1,133 (34.1)
Overweight 2,118 (27.0) 1,175 (25.9) 943 (28.3)
Obese 2,731 (34.8) 1,624 (35.9) 1,107 (33.3)
Unknown 199 (2.5) 124 (2.7) 75 (2.3)
Smoking status, n (%) Current Smoker 1,686 (21.5) 985 (21.8) 701 (21.1) 0.551
Former Smoker 2,093 (26.6) 1,217 (26.9) 876 (26.3)
Never Smoker 4,076 (51.9) 2,326 (51.4) 1,750 (52.6)
Drink alcohol, n (%) No 2,578 (32.8) 1,521 (33.6) 1,057 (31.8) 0.090
Yes 5,277 (67.2) 3,007 (66.4) 2,270 (68.2)
Exercise 20+ minutes in past month, n (%) 0 times 2,525 (32.1) 1,495 (33.0) 1,030 (31.0) 0.054
1+ times 5,330 (67.9) 3,033 (67.0) 2,297 (69.0)
Number of migraines in the past 30 days, mean (SD) 3.27 (5.33) 3.31 (5.23) 3.22 (5.47) 0.482
CCI, mean (SD) 0.55 (1.26) 0.55 (1.15) 0.54 (1.40) 0.725

Note:

*

p-value represents comparison of with N/V vs without N/V. Values in bold represent significant pairwise differences at p<0.05 from tests of column proportions (z tests) for categorical variables.

Abbreviations: N/V, nausea/vomiting; BMI, body mass index; CCI, Charlson comorbidity index; SD, standard deviation.