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Table 1 (abstract O6). Characteristics of PA (auras with at least 1 symptoms lasting >1 h) and NON-PA

From: 12th European Headache Federation Congress jointly with 32nd National Congress of the Italian Society for the Study of Headaches

Variable

PROLONGED AURAS (PA)

NON-PA

Sig.

Number

38

178

 

Visual symptoms (VS)

37 (97)

175 (98)

0.69

 • DVP

19 (50)

77 (43)

0.44

 • Positive

23 (60)

119 (67)

0.45

 • Negative

12 (31)

70 (39)

0.37

 • Number of elementary visual disturbance^ per aura

1.97 (1.05)

1.94 (0.93)

0.83

Sensory symptoms (SS)

26 (68)

49 (27)

<0.0001

Dysphasic symptoms (DS)

12 (31)

10 (7)

<0.0001

Number of symptoms (VS, SS, DS)/aura

  

<0.0001

 • 1

10 (26)

127 (71)

 

 • 2

19 (50)

46 (26)

 • 3

9 (23)

5 (3)

Time relation between aura symptoms in one aura

  

0.28

 • B* starts simultaneously with A*

11 (42)

14 (27)

 

 • B starts during A

11 (42)

18 (37)

 • B starts when A ceased

2 (8)

5 (10)

 • B starts after an interval of time after A has ceased

2 (8)

12 (24)

Headache

38 (100)

159 (83)

0.10

 • Started before/together with Aura (n=157)

7 (22)

27 (21)

0.88

 • Intensity (n=192)

2.3 (0.8)

2.2 (0.8)

0.59

 • Unilateral pain (n=192)

27 (75)

100 (64)

0.21

 • Throbbing pain (n=187)

17 (47)

71 (47)

0.98

 • Pain aggravated by physical activity (n=189)

27 (73)

98 (65)

0.32

 • Associated symptom: nausea (n=192)

23 (62)

101 (65)

0.73

 • Associated symptom: vomiting (n=189)

8 (23)

25 (16)

0.35

 • Associated symptom: photophobia (n=192)

29 (78)

126 (81)

0.68

 • Associated symptom: phonophobia (n=191)

23 (62)

99 (64)

0.81

 • Associated symptom: osmophobia (n=189)

6 (43)

53 (34)

0.31

  1. Data are presented as means (SD) for continuous data and as n (% of column) for categorical data. DVP: disturbances of visual perception (i.e. blurred/foggy vision, ‘like looking through heat waves or water’, deformed images,…). . ^In the analysis, the authors dissected every visual into elementary disturbance as reported by Viana et al. 2017 (Cephalalgia 37: 979–989). *A and B can be referred to 1st and 2nd aura symptoms or 2nd and 3rd aura symptoms (67 auras had at least 2 symptoms, 14 auras had 3 symptoms). When two symptoms started simultaneously, we designated the first completing symptom as A