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Table 1 (abstract P24). NNT, NNH and LHH for CM and EM prophylactic treatments

From: 11th European Headache Federation Congress jointly with 31st Congress of the Italian Society for the Study of Headaches

 

Chronic migraine (CM)

Episodic migraine (EM)

Erenumab 140 mg

Topiramate 100 mg

Onabotulinum-toxin A

Erenumab 140 mg

Topiramate 100 mg

Propranolol 160 mg

Data source :

NCT 02066415

Silberstein et al 2007 & 2009

Diener et al 2007

Dodick et al 2010

NCT 02456740

Bussone et al 2005

Diener et al 2004

NNT

≥50% RR (95%CI)

6 (4,12)

13 (NE, NE)

4 (3, 10)

9 (6, 15)

6 (4, 9)

5 (4, 6)

5 (4, 10)

NNH

% d/c due to AEs (95%CI)

250 (NE, NE)

21 (NE, NE)

13 (NE, NE)

39 (23, 100)

1000a (NE, NE)

8 (6, 13)

11 (6, 72)

LHH

NNH/NNT (95%CI)

41.7 (5.3, 301.8)

1.6 (0.0, 112.8)

3.3 (0.7, 364.9)

4.3 (1.9, 11.4)

166.7 (9.0, 299.3)

1.6 (1.1, 3.1)

2.2 (0.8, 14.5)

  1. CI confidence interval, 50% RR 50% responder rate, NE not estimable (risk difference CI overlaps zero)
  2. aDiscontinuation rate (d/c) for erenumab was lower than placebo, yielding a negative absolute risk reduction. Conservative imputation of 0.1% absolute difference used to calculate erenumab’s NNH (otherwise not evaluable)