Table 2.
Associated features with migraine in relation to sex
| Women (n: 640) /postmenopausal women ¶ (n: 87) | Men (n: 231) | Total (n: 871) | P(women-men)/ p’(postmenopausal women-men) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of attacks per month mean ± SD | 6.0±6 | 5.7±6 | 5.9±6 | NS | ||
| Attack duration (hours) mean ± SD | 39.1±78/47.7±94.1 | 24.0±49 | 35.1±72 | 0.006#/<0.001# | ||
| Number of days with headache per month mean ± SD | 6.3±6 | 6.0±6 | 6.2±6 | NS | ||
| ≥15 headache days per month | 73 (11.4) | 22 (9.5) | 95 (10.9) | NS | ||
| n (%)/n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Headache Severity | Mild | 37 (5.8) | 22 (9.5) | 59 (6.8) | NS | |
| Moderate | 255 (39.8) | 85 (36.8) | 340 (39.0) | |||
| Severe | 348 (54.4) | 124 (53.7) | 472 (54.2) | |||
| Nausea | 536 (83.8)/69 (79.3) | 163 (70.6) | 699 (80.3) | 0.001*/NS | ||
| Vomiting | 242 (37.8)/32 (36.8) | 56 (24.2) | 298 (34.2) | 0.001*/0.002* | ||
| Photophobia | 529 (82.7) | 190 (82.3) | 719 (82.5) | NS | ||
| Phonophobia | 549 (85.8) | 193 (83.5) | 742 (85.2) | NS | ||
| Osmophobia | 301 (47)/42 (48.3) | 78 (33.8) | 379 (43.5) | 0.001*/0.01* | ||
| Vertigo/dizziness | 431 (67.3)/61 (70.1) | 103 (44.6) | 534 (61.3) | <0.001*/<0.001* | ||
| Aggravation with movement | 601 (93.9) | 213 (92.2) | 814 (93.5) | NS | ||
| Headache Side | ||||||
| Only one sided headache | 282 (44.1) | 116 (50.2) | 398 (45.7) | NS | ||
| Only or predominant in one side headache | 421 (65.8) | 152 (65.8) | 573 (65.8) | NS | ||
| Only both sided headache | 175 (27.3) | 60 (26.4) | 235 (27.1) | NS | ||
| Throbbing headache | 534 (83.4) | 177 (76.6) | 711 (81.6) | NS | ||
| Pressure headache | 172 (26.9) | 65 (28.1) | 237 (27.2) | NS | ||
| Prodrom of migraine | 423 (66.1) | 164 (71) | 587 (67.4) | NS | ||
| Aura present | 135 (21.1) | 52 (22.5) | 187 (21.5) | NS | ||
| Allodynia | 410 (64.1)/60 (69) | 122 (52.8) | 532 (61.1) | 0.003*/0.008* | ||
| MIDAS | 1 | 322 (50.3) | 156 (67.5) | 478 (54.9) | ||
| 2 | 122 (19.1) | 50 (21.6) | 172 (19.7) | |||
| 3 | 125 (19.5) | 13 (5.6) | 138 (15.8) | |||
| 4 | 71 (11.1) | 12 (5.2) | 83 (9.5) | |||
| Mean score ± SD | 9.36±14.4/9.4±13.2 | 4.87±7.4 | 8.17±13.07 | <0.001#/0.01# | ||
*
chi-square
#
2-tailed t test
NS, not significant
P, p value of women and men
p’, p value of postmenopausal women and men
¶, 60 subjects did not answer