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Table 1 TN Patient Demographics Stratified by Pain, Medication Use, and Surgical Historya

From: Burden of illness of trigeminal neuralgia among patients managed in a specialist center in England

  

Pain

Medication

Surgery

 

Total Sample

Any attacks in past 4 weeks

No attacks in past 4 weeks

Current monotherapy

Current poly therapy

No current therapy

No surgery

MVD only

Ablative surgery

MVD + ablative surgery

Total N

129

59

69

49

35

45

77

30

13

8

Age, Continuous (years,%)

 Mean (SD)

65.7 (12)

66.2 (11)

65.1 (12)

69.3 (11)

64.8 (11)

62.6 (11)

67.4 (11)

61.5 (11)

69.1 (13)

60.9 (8)

 Median (IQR)

67.0 (59, 73)

68.0

(58, 74)

67.0

(60, 72)

71.0

(62, 79)

66.0

(55, 74)

64.0

(57, 71)

69.0

(61, 74)

63.0

(51, 71)

71.0

(65, 82)

63.5 (53.5, 67)

 Min/Max

39/85

39/85

41/85

39/85

47/85

41/79

39/85

42/79

44/84

49/70

Age, Categories (n, %)

 35–44

6 (5)

2 (3)

4 (6)

2 (4)

0

4 (8.9)

4 (5.2)

1 (3)

1 (8)

0

 45–54

17 (13)

7 (12)

10 (15)

2 (4)

8 (23)

7 (16)

5 (7)

9 (30)

1 (8)

2 (25)

 55–64

29 (23)

15 (25)

14 (20)

11 (22)

6 (17)

12 (27)

18 (23)

7 (23)

1 (8)

2 (25)

 65+

77 (60)

35 (59)

41 (59)

34 (69)

21 (60)

22 (49)

50 (65)

13 (43)

10 (77)

4 (50)

Gender, n (%)

 Female

84 (65)

37 (63)

46 (67)

32 (65)

20 (57)

32 (71)

54 (70)

19 (63)

7 (54)

4 (50)

 Male

45 (35)

22 (37)

23 (33)

17 (35)

15 (43)

13 (29)

23 (30)

11 (37)

6 (46)

4 (50)

Race, n (%)

 White

113 (88)

51 (86)

61 (88)

42 (86)

30 (86)

41 (91)

66 (86)

27 (90)

12 (92)

7 (88)

Asian/Asian British

8 (6)

3 (5)

5 (7)

5 (10)

1 (3)

2 (4)

7 (9)

1 (3)

0

0

Black/African/Caribbean/Black British

7 (5)

5 (9)

2 (3)

1 (2)

4 (11)

2 (4)

4 (5)

2 (7)

0

1 (13)

Other

1 (1)

0

1 (1)

1 (2)

0

0

0

0

1 (8)

0

  1. aMissing n = 1 in some pain report and some surgery statistics
  2. MVD Microvascular decompression