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Table 1 (abstract P65). Description of the migraine phases

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

Proportion of respondents (%)

Premonitory phase

Headache phase

Postdromal phase

Duration of phase

 < 4 hours

51%

20%

30%

 4-24 hours

30%

45%

40%

 >24 hours

14%

34%

27%

Not experiencing this phase

6%

1%

3%

Duration of the phase >24 hours in migraine patients with:

 - no failure to migraine preventive treatment

11%

27%

20%

 - 1 failure to migraine preventive treatment

11%

29%

23%

 - ≥2 failures to migraine preventive treatment

17%

38%

30%

Feeling very to extremely limited during the phase

29%

71%

30%