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Table 6 Overall visits per patient-year of the primary cohort stratified by quartiles

From: Burden of migraine in Finland: health care resource use, sick-leaves and comorbidities in occupational health care

Visits (overall)

q1

q2

q3

q4

p-value*

Cut-off (visits per patient-year)

< 7.03

7.03–12.22

12.23–19.79

> 19.79

–

Follow-up time, years (median)

3.25

3.35

3.18

2.64

< 0.001

N

3990

3992

3991

3991

–

Female (%)

73.7%

77.1%

81.5%

83.9%

< 0.001

Age, years (mean)

36.06

39.07

40.14

40.75

< 0.001

Acute prescription only, %

34.1%

34.5%

38.2%

38.8%

< 0.001

No prescription, %

58.6%

54.0%

48.6%

41.9%

Prophylactic prescription, %

7.3%

11.5%

13.2%

19.3%

Botulinum toxin A, %

0.1%

0.1%

0.3%

0.9%

< 0.001

Prophylactic treatment line 0

92.68%

88.53%

86.82%

80.68%

< 0.001

1

6.64%

9.17%

10.52%

14.48%

2

0.65%

2.00%

2.08%

3.36%

≥3

0.03%

0.30%

0.58%

1.48%

  1. *P-value for test for all quartiles equal