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Findings

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  • The more frequent headache categories were associated with a slightly older age of onset, higher proportion of BMI in the obese range, overall lower level of household income and education.
  • There was overlap between HFEM and LFCM respondents in levels of cutaneous allodynia, disability, interictal burden, anxiety and depression.
  • Utilization of healthcare resources significantly increased across monthly headache day categories (p<0.001) but were markedly similar between HFEM and LFCM.
  • Utilization of acute and preventative treatments increased with monthly headache day category, but patterns of treatment utilization were generally similar between HFEM and LFCM.
  • Compared to HFEM, the rate of medication overuse was more than 20 percentage points higher among LFCM.