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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Headache. 2017 Nov 29;58(3):371–380. doi: 10.1111/head.13235

Table 2.

Association between migraine and suicidal behaviors by psychiatric disorder status (N = 156,172,826)

Suicidal behaviors With migraine
(N = 2,190,305)
Without migraine
(N = 153,982,521)
OR (95% CI)

Unadjusted Adjusteda
No suicidal behavior 2,097,808 151,505,167 Reference Reference
Suicidal behavior 92,497 2,477,354 2.69 (2.55, 2.86) 2.07 (1.96, 2.19)

Stratified by depression

With depression (N = 17,961,785)
    No suicidal behavior 556,429 15,962,426 Reference Reference
    Suicidal behavior 55,433 1,387,497 1.15 (1.08, 1.21) 0.80 (0.76, 0.85)
Without depression (N = 138,211,041)
    No suicidal behavior 1,541,379 135,542,741 Reference Reference
    Suicidal behavior 37,064 1,089,857 2.99 (2.80, 3.20) 2.35 (2.20, 2.51)

Stratified by anxiety

  With anxiety (N = 7,670,390)
    No suicidal behavior 255,719 7,061,486 Reference Reference
    Suicidal behavior 20,698 332,487 1.72 (1.63, 1.82) 1.07 (1.02, 1.13)
  Without anxiety (N = 148,502,437)
    No suicidal behavior 1,842,089 144,443,681 Reference Reference
    Suicidal behavior 71,799 2,144,868 2.63 (2.46, 2.80) 2.06 (1.94, 2.20)

Stratified by PTSD

  With PTSD (N = 840,339)
    No suicidal behavior 40,500 608,209 Reference Reference
    Suicidal behavior 13,929 177,701 1.18 (1.11, 1.25) 1.00 (0.94, 1.07)
  Without PTSD (N = 155,332,488)
    No suicidal behavior 2,057,308 150,896,959 Reference Reference
    Suicidal behavior 78,568 2,299,653 2.51 (2.36, 2.67) 1.95 (1.84, 2.08)

Individual cell counts may not add up to the global cell counts because of rounding and the differences arising from variance computations when using the discharge weights. Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding, missing data, or data falling into categories too small to report.

Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; PTSD, Posttraumatic stress disorder

a

Adjusted for age (continuous), sex, race, median household income quartiles for patient zip code, hospital location, hospital region, year, and age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index.