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

Table 1

The distribution of headache patients (pd) on different age groups and consultation prevalence (cp) of headache in these age groups in the German SESAM 2 study (total = 8,877) and the Dutch Transition Project (total = 149,238).

Age years	SESAM 2 ()		DTP ( = 8,050)
	pd %	cp %	pd %	cp %
<4	0.4	0.9	0.9	0.7
5 to 14	0.9	0.7	9.5	5.3
15 to 24	21.1	5.5	14.6	7.2
25 to 44	35.1	4.4	38.8	6.9
45 to 64	32.0	2.6	22.7	5.6
65 to 74	7.8	1.1	8.0	4.0
>75	2.6	0.5	5.5	3.0

pd: patient distribution, refers to the group of headache patients.
cp: consultation prevalence, refers to all patients of the same age group within the study population.