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Table 4 Characteristics of Migraine Phases

From: My Migraine Voice survey: a global study of disease burden among individuals with migraine for whom preventive treatments have failed

 

Premonitory Phase, % (N)

Headache Phase, % (N)

Postdromal Phase, % (N)

Duration of phase

  < 4 h

50% (5676)

20% (2280)

30% (3419)

 4–24 h

30% (3312)

45% (5067)

40% (4516)

  > 24 h

14% (1622)

34% (3835)

27% (3006)

 Not experiencing this phase

6% (656)

1% (84)

3% (325)

Proportion of individuals in each preventive treatment group reporting the duration of this migraine attack phase > 24 h:

  - No failure to migraine preventive treatment

11% (250)

27% (599)

20% (436)

  - 1 TF of migraine preventive treatment

11% (103)

29% (282)

23% (218)

  - ≥2 TFs of migraine preventive treatment

17% (1114)

38% (2539)

31% (2048)

  - P-value: ≥2 failures vs no failure of migraine preventative treatment

< 0.05

< 0.05

< 0.05

Feeling very to extremely limited during the phase

29% (3047)

71% (8023)

30% (3291)

  1. TF Treatment failure