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Table 4 Comparison of proportions of different primary headache diagnoses among headache sufferers in the two samples

From: The applicability of web-based solutions in headache epidemiology research

Primary headaches

Weighted number of cases in Estonian population based person-to-person sample survey

Proportions of diagnoses among headache sufferers in the population based person-to-person sample (%)

Number of cases after weighting in the online sample

Proportions of diagnoses among headache sufferers in the online sample (%)

p-value for the proportions being different

(χ2 tested)

Episodic migraine

204.6

42

375.6

31

<  0.001

Chronic migraine

11

2

28.5

2

1

Episodic TTH

200

41

654.9

54

<  0.001

Chronic TTH

18.7

4

48.4

4

0.96

TACs

4.5

1

5.3

1

0.41

Other primary headaches

29.8

6

57.1

5

0.31

Unidentifiable

24

5

41.8

3

0.21

  1. TTH tension-type headache, TACs trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias