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Table 3 All values are presented as mean ratios, Two-sample t-tests

From: Cortical GABA in migraine with aura -an ultrashort echo magnetic resonance spectroscopy study

Group Descriptives		Occipital			Somatosensory
Metabolite	Group	p	Mean	SD	p	Mean	SD
GABA (water)	Control	0.283	1.891	0.284	0.592	1.597	0.183
GABA (water)	MWA	0.283	1.780	0.271	0.592	1.638	0.225
GABA/Cr + PCr	Control	0.744	0.305	0.054	0.305	0.270	0.038
GABA/Cr + PCr	MWA	0.744	0.298	0.055	0.305	0.286	0.045
GABA/NAA + NAAG	Control	0.441	0.173	0.024	0.979	0.169	0.017
GABA/NAA + NAAG	MWA	0.441	0.165	0.033	0.979	0.169	0.020
Glx (water)	Control	0.107	7.991	0.704	0.438	7.362	0.548
Glx (water)	MWA	0.107	7.646	0.345	0.438	7.536	0.662
Glx/Cr + PCr	Control	0.851	1.271	0.094	0.111	1.244	0.105
Glx/Cr + PCr	MWA	0.851	1.278	0.097	0.111	1.314	0.129
Asp (water)	Control	0.710	2.675	0.339	0.790	1.903	0.225
Asp (water)	MWA	0.710	2.718	0.290	0.790	1.923	0.175
Asp/Cr + PCr	Control	0.116	0.429	0.045	0.206	0.321	0.032
Asp/Cr + PCr	MWA	0.116	0.452	0.032	0.206	0.335	0.028
Cr + PCr (water)	Control	0.131	6.241	0.369	0.134	5.937	0.388
Cr + PCr (water)	MWA	0.131	6.009	0.446	0.134	5.747	0.264
Ins (Water)	Control	0.220	4.349	0.558	0.065	4.588	0.389
Ins (Water)	MWA	0.220	4.113	0.459	0.065	4.307	0.413
Ins/Cr + PCr	Control	0.297	0.745	0.200	0.440	0.774	0.064
Ins/Cr + PCr	MWA	0.297	0.685	0.071	0.440	0.752	0.092
NAA + NAAG (water)	Control	0.828	10.946	0.725	0.158	9.460	0.399
NAA + NAAG (water)	MWA	0.828	10.888	0.738	0.158	9.712	0.550
NAA + NAAG/Cr + PCr	Control	0.012*	1.742	0.090	0.015**	1.598	0.089
NAA + NAAG/Cr + PCr	MWA	0.012*	1.834	0.098	0.015**	1.693	0.111

Student’s t-test (p-values)
* P = 0.012, ** P = 0.015 comparing migraine patients to healthy subjects, both considered non-significant after Bonferroni correction

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