Table 1.
Clinical and demographic characteristics of healthy controls (HC), migraine without aura patients scanned between attacks (MO) and chronic migraineurs (CM). Data are expressed as the mean ± SD
| Characteristics | HC (n = 18) |
MO (n = 19) |
CM (n = 18) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female (n) | 11 | 13 | 11 |
| Age (years) | 28.4 ± 4.1 | 31.9 ± 2.1 | 31.5 ± 10.1 |
| Duration of migraine history (years) | 14.2 ± 6.7 | 14.8 ± 12.8 | |
| Attack frequency/month for MO and Headache days/month for CM (n) | 3.2 ± 2.1 | 23.0 ± 7.3 | |
| Migraine days/month for CM (n) | 14.9 ± 6.3 | ||
| Days from the last migraine attack for MO (n) | 21.0 ± 18.3 | ||
| Severity of headache attacks (0–10 VAS score) | 7.5 ± 0.8 | 7.4 ± 0.6 | |
| Number of acute medication intake/month (n) | 2.8 ± 3.1 | 2.1 ± 0.4 |