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Table 1 Demographics and comorbidities

From: Favourable prognosis of trigeminal neuralgia when enrolled in a multidisciplinary management program - a two-year prospective real-life study

Characteristic

24 months

medical follow-up

Surgical treatment < 24 months after 1st outpatient visit

p-value

N (%) 95% Cl mean

N (%) 95% Cl mean

 

Demographics

 Total number of patients

103 (67)

50 (33)

 

 Women

72 (70) 60–78

28 (56) 21–34

0.13a

 Current age

57.2 54.3–60.1

61.8 57.8–65.8

0.069b

 Age at onset, mean, years

52.5 49.7–55.3

54.0 49.8–58.2

0.58b

 Disease duration, mean, years

4.4 3.4–5.5

6.2 4.7–7.8

0.10b

Clinical characteristics

 Right-sided pain

60 (58) 49–68

26 (52) 37–66

0.42a

 Bilateral pain

8 (7) 3–15

0 (0) n/a

0.055c

 Concomitant persistent pain

55 (53) 43–63

26 (52) 37–66

0.87a

Localization of pain

 V1

3 (3) 0–9

1 (2) 0–10

1.00c

 V2

19 (18) 2–26

6 (12) 5–24

0.44a

 V3

20 (19) 13–28

15 (30) 19–44

0.21a

 V1+  2

9 (9) 5–16

5 (10) 4–22

0.80a

 V2 +  3

37 (36) 27–46

15 (30) 17–45

0.59a

 V1+  2+  3

15 (15) 9–23

8 (16) 8–29

0.82a

Comorbidities

 Hypertension

32 (31) 22–40

15 (30) 17–45

0.89a

 Other chronic pain conditions

11 (11) 6–17

9 (18) 9–31

0.17a

 Depression and/or anxiety

15 (15) 8–23

7 (14) 6–29

0.89a

 Cardiovascular disease

8 (7) 4–14

8 (16) 7–29

0.20a

 Tension type headache, migraine or cluster headache

24 (22) 15–31

7 (14) 6–29

0.26a

  1. Demographics of patients with at least 24 months medical follow-up and patients who were referred for surgery < 24 months after initial outpatient visit. aChi square b Unpaired t-test c Fishers exact test. n/a = not applicable. P < 0.05 was considered significant