Research Article
Body Mass Index and Primary Headache: A Hospital-Based Study in China
Table 3
Comparison of BMI and other variables in the TTH group: ETTH vs. CTTH.
| | Variable | ETTH
(n = 319) | CTTH
(n = 186) | p value |
| | Female (n, %) | 197(61.8%) | 123 (66.1%) | 0.325 | | Age (years, mean ± SD) | 45.49 ± 12.52 | 46.84 ± 13.76 | 0.272 | | Marriage (n, %) | | | 0.357 | | Married | 291 (91.2%)) | 165 (88.7%) | | | | 28 (8.8%) | 21 (11.3%) | | | Education level (n, %) | | | 0.533 | | Primary school or less | 189 (60%) | 119 (64.3%) | | | High school or technical school | 65 (20.6%) | 37 (20%) | | | University | 61 (19.4%) | 29 (15.7%) | | | Elevated blood pressure (n, %) | 86 (27.2%) | 39 (21.5%) | 0.161 | | Smoking (n, %) | 63 (21.7%) | 36 (21.8%) | 0.981 | | Alcohol consumption (n, %) | 16 (5.7%) | 8 (4.9%) | 0.73 | | pain intensity (mean ± SD) | 3.97 ± 1.88 | 3.87 ± 2.03 | 0.584 | | Medication overuse (n, %) | 4 (1.3%) | 37 (19.9%) | <0.001 | | Average headache days per month (days, mean ± SD) | 1.67 ± 9.03 | 11.81 ± 28.69 | <0.001 | | Family headache history (n, %) | 96 (31.4%) | 62 (34.1%) | 0.3 | | Duration of headache history (years, mean ± SD) | 4.60 ± 7.07 | 9.05 ± 10.27 | <0.001 | | BMI (mean ± SD) | 22.94 ± 2.95 | 22.21 ± 3.24 | 0.012 | | Waist/height ratio | 0.44 ± 0.13 | 0.44 ± 0.13 | 0.975 |
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Notes. patients included unmarried, divorced, and widowed individuals. SD: standard deviation; ETTH: episodic tension-type headache; CTTH: chronic tension-type headache. |
