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Table 1 General and clinical data of cluster headache patients and healthy control subjects (mean ± standard deviation)

From: Cluster headache and kynurenines

 

Episodic cluster headache patients

Healthy control subjects

Gender

Male (n = 21)

Male (n = 18)

Female (n = 3)

Female (n = 4)

Age (years)

36.58 ± 8.62

32.75 ± 10.79

Number of subjects in different groups and number of samples in different periods of headache

Patients, n = 24

Interbout sample, n = 19

Ictal sample, n = 11

Paired samples, n = 6

Subjects, n = 22

No regular headache syndromes, chronic diseases and drugs

Clinical data of Cluster headache patients (interbout and ictal samples)

Disease Duration (years)

5.79 ± 4.53 and 11.18 ± 6.98

Attack frequency (attack/year)

1.32 ± 0.58 and 1.45 ± 0.52

Duration of cluster period (days)

35.95 ± 43.84 and 49.36 ± 47.20

Last attack before the interbout cupping (days)

152.05 ± 197.70

Beginning of attack until ictal cupping (hours)

4.18 ± 6.64

Start of cluster period during ictal sampling (days)

21.64 ± 17. 06

Previous last attack before the ictal sampling (days)

198.50 ± 244.47