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. 2022 Nov 23;23(1):149. doi: 10.1186/s10194-022-01525-6

Table 5.

Phenotype of patients according the presence of non-headache symptoms throughout all three phases of migraine

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
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