Table 5.
Patients having at least one non-headache symptom throughout all three phases of migraine | Patients having at least one non-headache symptom in one or two phases of migraine |
p value* Non-headache symptoms in all phases vs non-headache symptoms in one or two phases of migraine |
|
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N° of subjects | 122 (54%) | 103 (46%) | – |
Median age [IQ range] [years] | 45 [34–51] | 47 [34–57] | 0.099 |
Women/Men | 104 (85%) – 18 (15%) | 70 (68%) – 33 (32%) | 0.002 |
Median disease duration [IQ range] | 30 [16–39] | 30 [20–40] | 0.914 |
Migraine with aura/Migraine without aura | 30 (25%) – 92 (75%) | 18 (17%) – 85 (83%) | 0.253 |
Median monthly headache days [IQ range] | 20 [9–30] | 12 [7–23] | 0.001 |
Median monthly migraine days [IQ range] | 15 [8–20] | 11 [6–17] | 0.056 |
Episodic/Chronic migraine | 40 (33%) - 82 (67%) | 57 (55%) – 46 (45%) | 0.001 |
Patients taking/not taking migraine prevention | 47 (39%)/ 75 (61%) | 34 (33%)/ 69 (67%) | 0.4 |
Median of preventive treatments used | 3 [1–5] | 3 [0–5] | 0.153 |
Migraine with medication overuse/ Migraine without medication overuse | 70 (57%) – 52 (43%) | 40 (39%) – 63 (61%) | 0.004 |
Median of monthly tablets of acute treatments [IQ range] | 16 [8–30] | 12 [5–20] | 0.015 |
Median MIDAS score [IQ range] | 55 [20–103] | 34 [17–69] | 0.004 |
Median HIT-6 score [IQ range] | 66 [63–69] | 64 [61–67] | 0.002 |
Median NRS score [IQ range] | 8 [7–9] | 8 [7–9] | 0.156 |
Median ASC score [IQ range] | 5 [2–8] | 4 [1–7] | 0.130 |
*Independent t test or Mann-Whitney test for continuous variables and the Fisher exact test for categorical variables