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Table 2 Comparison of headache diagnoses in patients with chronic headache and patients with missing headache frequency based on the “worst headache” in the Eurolight questionnaire

From: Prevalence, management and burden of episodic and chronic headaches—a cross-sectional multicentre study in eight Austrian headache centres

HA diagnosis (worst HA)

CH

CH with pMOH

CH without pMOH

HA frequency missing

 

n = 169

n = 70

n = 99

n = 23

 

n

%

n

%

n

%

N

%

Migrainous HA

137

81.1

66

94.3

71

71.7

16

69.6

Tension-type like HA

27

16

3

4.3

24

24.2

5

21.7

Other HA

5

3

1

1.4

4

4

2

8.7

  1. HA, Headache, CH, Chronic headache, pMOH, Probable medication overuse headache