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. 2019 Jul 24;20(1):84. doi: 10.1186/s10194-019-1032-x

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of patient groups using and not using migraine preventive treatments

Patient characteristic (ITT population) Using preventive treatments N = 698 Not using preventive treatments N = 3283
Age, mean (SD), years 45.7 (11.6) 41.4 (12.5)
Female, n (%) 613 (87.8) 2742 (83.5)
Race, white, n (%) 595 (85.2) 2560 (78.0)
BMI, mean (SD) 30.3 (7.3) 30.2 (8.8)
Duration of migraine history, mean (SD), years 21.4 (13.8) 18.1 (12.6)
Average migraine attacks/month in past 3 months, mean (SD) 5.3 (1.8) 5.2 (1.9)

BMI body-mass index, ITT intent to treat, N number of patients in subgroup of ITT population, n number of patients with stated characteristic, SD standard deviation

p < 0.05; p < 0.001 compared with not using preventives