Fig. 6

Comparison of related characteristics of AWNM, AWM, and MwoA. Migraine-like headache occupied absolute majorities across all groups, and AWNM patients contributed to a much larger percentage of other headache types (16.32%) (A). The proportion of females was higher in MwoA than AWM and AWNM (B). MwoA and AWM patients had more severe headaches (C), longer headache course (D) than AWNM patients. The medians and quartiles are presented as boxplots with whiskers with a maximum 1.5 interquartile range (IQR). The circles illustrate kernel probability density, and the color depth of the circle represents the proportion of the data located therein (C and D). Compared to AWNM, headache attacks in MwoA and AWM patients were more likely to be aggravated by activity (E). The Duration of headache attacks was significantly different across all types. MwoA patients had the longest duration of headache, followed by AWM patients, and the shortest was AWNM patients (25.97 ± 29.83 h in MwoA, 21.75 ± 27.34 h in AWM, 12.14 ± 45.53 h in AWNM). The Y-axis represents the logarithm of patient numbers with corresponding headache duration (F). The incidence of all accompanying symptoms in AWM patients was higher than AWNM patients with significant differences, and the incidences in AWM patients were similar to MwoA patients. The size of the circle represents the incidence of the accompanying symptoms in AWNM or AWM patients. The closer the circle is to the gray diagonal, the closer the incidence of accompanying symptoms is to MwoA patients (G). * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001