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. 2019 Feb 12;20(1):13. doi: 10.1186/s10194-019-0964-5

Table 2.

Total and disease specific visits and sick-leave days of migraine patients and controls

HCRU and sick leaves Control G43*, prim. cohort1 G43*, primary cohort
Prophylactic Acute No prescr.2 BT treated BT untreated3 Prophylactic treatment line4
0 1 2 ≥3
N 17,623 17,623 2199 6525 8899 53 17,570 15,424 1767 334 98
Patient-years 76,804 51,397 7033 17,408 26,955 212 51,184 44,363 5435 1209 390
Average follow-up time per patient (years) 4.4 2.8 3.2 2.7 3.0 4.01 2.91 2.9 3.1 3.6 4.0
Visits
 total 649,362 739,803 129,616 261,872 348315* 6480 733323* 610,187 96,241 23,153 10222*
 per patient 36.9 42.0* 58.9 40.1 39.1* 122.3 41.7* 39.6 54.5 69.3 104.3*
 per patient-year 8.5 14.4* 18.4 15.0 12.9* 30.5 14.3* 13.8 17.7 19.2 26.2*
G43* visits
 total 59,937 16,667 23,013 20257* 1862 58075* 43,270 10,597 3729 2341*
 per patient 3.4 7.6 3.5 2.3* 35.1 3.3* 2.8 6 11.2 23.9*
 per patient-year 1.2 2.4 1.3 0.8* 8.8 1.1* 1.0 2.0 3.1 6.0*
Sick leave days
 total 742,162 902,454 158,092 302,586 441776* 7845 894609* 744,362 117,207 29,026 11859*
 per patient 42.1 51.2* 71.9 46.4 49.6* 148.0 50.9* 48.3 66.3 86.9 121.0*
 per patient-year 9.7 17.6* 22.5 17.4 16.4* 37.0 17.5* 16.8 21.6 24.0 30.4*
G43* sick leave days
 total 40,432 14,476 12,384 13572* 2529 37903* 25,956 8265 3613 2598*
 per patient 2.3 6.6 1.9 1.5* 47.7 2.2* 1.7 4.7 10.8 26.5*
 per patient-year 0.8 2.1 0.7 0.5* 11.9 0.7* 0.6 1.5 3.0 6.7*
Sick leave periods
 total 126,816 19,583 45,800 61433* 907 125909* 107,233 14,576 3551 1456*
 per patient 7.2 8.9 7.0 6.9* 17.1 7.2* 7.0 8.3 10.6 14.9*
 per patient-year 2.5 2.8 2.6 2.3* 4.3 2.5* 2.4 2.7 2.9 3.7*
G43 sick leave periods
 total 12,362 2776 4754 4832* 260 12102* 9586 1750 626 400*
 per patient 0.7 1.5 0.7 0.5* 4.9 0.7* 0.6 1.0 1.9 4.1*
 per patient-year 0.20 0.39 0.27 0.18 * 1.22 0.24* 0.22 0.32 0.52 1.03*

BT botulinum toxin; Significance indicated between 1: controls and G43* primary cohort; 2: prophylactic, acute and no migraine prescription groups; 3: Botulinum toxin treated and untreated patients; 4: between prophylactic treatment lines

*p < 0.001