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Table 3 Headache diagnoses by school grade among pupils (both genders) reporting headache during the preceding year

From: Prevalence and burden of headache in children and adolescents in Austria – a nationwide study in a representative sample of pupils aged 10–18 years

Headache type

Proportions of those with any headache (N = 2562)

5th grade (n = 317)

7th grade (n = 669)

9th grade (n = 822)

11th grade (n = 754)

UdH

44.2%a

40.5%a

30.8%b

29.2%b

All migraine

27.4%a

28.5%a

34.6%a

34.2%a

 Definite migraine

16.4%a

6.4%b

6.3%b

8.6%b

 Probable migraine

11.0%a

22.1%b

28.3%c

25.6%b,c

All TTH

23.3%a

26.7%a,b

28.3%a,b

32.6%b

 Definite TTH

16.7%a,b

18.2%b

18.9%a,b

24.0%a

 Probable TTH

6.6%a

8.5%a

9.4%a

8.6%a

All H15+

3.7%a

2.8%a

5.5%a

3.4%a

 pMOH

0.9%a

0.6%a

1.7%a

1.5%a

 Other H15+

2.8%a

2.2%a

3.8%a

1.9%a

Unclassifiable

1.3%a

1.3%a

0.9%a

0.7%a

  1. UdH Undifferentiated headache, TTH Tension-type headache, H15+ Headache on ≥15 days/month, pMOH probable medication-overuse headache (see text); a,b,c These superscript notations indicate groups differing (p < 0.05) on Tukey post-hoc analyses