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. 2018 Jun 1;115(22):365–370. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.2018.0365

eTable. The frequency of medication overuse headache*.

Authors Country Age group Frequency of MOH
Castillo et al. (1999) (e2) Spain ≥ 14 1.2%
Wang et al. (2000) (e3) Taiwan ≥ 65 1.0%
Lu et al. (2001) (e4) Taiwan ≥ 15 1.1%
Pascual et al. (2001) – review (e5) 1.0–1.9%
Prencipe et al. (2001) (e6) France ≥ 65 1.7%
Colas et al. (2004) (e7) Spain ≥ 14 1.5%
Zwart et al. (2004) (e8) Norway ≥ 20 0.9–1.0%
Dyb et al. (2006) (e9) Norway 13–18 0.2%
Wang et al. (2006) (e10) Taiwan 12–14 0.3%
Wiendels 2006 (e11) Netherlands 25–55 2.6%
Stovner et al.(2007) – review (7) 0.5–1.0%
Aaseth et al. (2008. 2009) (e12, e13) Norway 30–44 1.7%
Rueda-Sanchez & Diaz-Martinez (2008) (e14) Colombia 18–65 4.5%
Katzarava et al. (2009) (e15) Georgia ≥ 16 0.9%
Da Silva et al. (2009) (e16) Brazil 10–93 1.6%
Straube et al. (2010) (e17) Germany 18–88 1.0%
Jonsson et al. (2011. 2012) (e18, e19) Sweden ≥ 15 1.8%
Linde et al. (2011) (e20) Norway ≥ 20 1.0%
Lipton et al. (2011) (e21) USA 12–17 1.0%
Ayzenberg et al. (2012) (e22) Russia 18–65 7.2%
Ertas et al. (2012) (e23) Turkey 18–65 2.1%
Hagen et al. (2012) (e24) Norway ≥ 20 0.8%
Shahbeigi et al. (2012) (e25) Iran ≥ 10 4.9%
Yu et al. (2012) (e26) China 18–65 0.9%
Schramm et al. (2013) (e27) Germany 18–65 0.7%
Park et al. (2014) (e28) South Korea 19–69 0.5%
Westergaard et al. (2014. 2016) (e1, e29) Denmark ≥ 16 1.6% (adj. 1.8%)
Kristo ffersen and Lundqvist (2014) – review (e30) 1.0–2.0%
Steiner (2014) – editorial (e31) 1.0–2.0%
Westergaard et al. (2015) – review (e32) 0.5–7.2%
Bravo (2015) – review (e33) Older patients 1.0–7.1%
Mbewe et al. (2015) (e34) Zambia 18–65 12.7% (adj. 7.1%)
Kulkarni et al. (2015) (e35) India 18–65 1.2%
Manandhar et al. (2016) (e36) Nepal 18–65 2.2%
Zebenigus et al. (2016) (e37) Ethiopia 18–65 0.8% (adj. 0.7%)
Al-Hashel et al. (2017) (e38) Kuwait 18–65 2.4%
Rastenytė et al. (2017) (e39) Lithuania 18–65 3.5% (adj. 3.2%)
Henning et al. (in press) (e40) Germany 18–65 0.7%
Global Burden of Disease (2015) – review (e41) worldwide 0.8%

* Figures based on the review of Westergaard et al. (2014) (e1) supplemented by data from more recent studies and in part recalculated from new data.adj.: adjusted; MOH: medication overuse headache