Headache in General Practice: Frequency, Management, and Results of Encounter

Table 2

Comparison of the number and percentage % of accompanying symptoms^* in general practice patients with and without headache (SESAM 2 study).

Accompanying symptoms	Headache		Without headache		(Fisher)
		%		%
	Fever	24	10.4	349		4.0	0.000
Coryza	23	10.0	195	2.3	0.000
Cough	22	9.5	92	1.1	0.036
Throat complaint	13	5.6	286	3.3	0.063
Weakness/tiredness	12	5.2	172	2.0	0.003
Nausea	11	4.8	74	0.9	0.000
Neck pain	9	3.9	157	1.8	0.041
Vertigo	8	3.5	44	0.5	0.000
Dysphagia	3	1.3	20	0.2	0.021
Tinnitus	3	1.3	13	0.2	0.008
Unspecified symptoms of the nervous system	3	1.3	9	0.1	0.003

^*Further accompanying symptoms of patients with headache omitted from the table because of lacking significance: visual floaters/spots, abnormal eye sensation, abnormal eye appearance, vomiting, diarrhea, back pain, shoulder pain, reduced activity, colic, stomach ache, constipation, pyrosis, teeth problems, eye pain, otalgia, pulse irregularities, other chest pain, lumbago without emanation, knee pain, muscle pain fibrositis, unspecific pain in several joints, unspecific pain of the musculoskeletal system, paresthesia in fingers, feet, and toes, disturbances of smell and taste, acute stress reaction, feeling/behaving irritable/angry, shortness of breath, nosebleed, sinus complaint, other symptoms of the respiratory tract, acute laryngitis, tracheitis, localised rash, laceration/cut, other skin symptoms, dysuria, and hematuria.