Findings
What does this study add?
- 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.