Journal
CEPHALALGIA
Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 104-113Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0333102416636055
Keywords
Headache; migraine; chronic migraine; disability; MIDAS
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- Institute of Health Carlos III
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [PI10/00876]
- Fundacio La Marato TV3 [072310]
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Introduction: According to the IHCD-3 beta classification, chronic migraine (CM) is headache occurring on 15 or more days/month. Episodic migraine (EM) can be divided into low frequency (LFEM) and high frequency (HFEM) depending on the headache days suffered per month. Methods: We performed a clinical comparison of migraine characteristics according to monthly headache days suffered. Patients were divided into three groups: LFEM (1-9 headache days/month), HFEM (10-14 headache days/month) and CM (>= 15 headache days/month). Results: The analysis included 1109 patients. Previously reported differences between EM and CM were replicated. However, there were three times more clinical differences between LFEM and HFEM than between HFEM and CM (15 vs. 6). A new model that takes 10 headache days as a cut-off value for CM would have a minimally higher predictive capacity (72.8%) and no statistical differences (71.8%) when comparing it to the current classification. Conclusions: HFEM patients have few clinical differences compared with CM patients. This includes the poor outcomes regarding headache-related disability and impact on daily life. According to these findings, neurologists and headache specialists should consider that the emotional and functional impact in HFEM patients could be as disabling as in those with CM.
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