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Table 1 Demographics and clinical characteristics of the included patients

From: The potential impact of nutritional intake on symptoms severity in patients with comorbid migraine and irritable bowel syndrome

 

Patients (n = 100)

Age [Median (IQR)]

36 (29.5- 44)

Sex

 Males [n (%)]

27 (27%)

 Females [n (%)]

73 (73%)

BMI [Median (IQR)]

26.12 (23.42- 29.4)

Age at onset of migraine [Median (IQR)]

25 (20- 32)

Type of Migraine

 Episodic [n (%)]

69 (69%)

 Chronic [n (%)]

31 (31%)

Aura

 With aura [n (%)]

32 (32%)

 Without aura [n (%)]

68 (68%)

Frequency of migraine attacks/ month [Median (IQR)]

8 (4 - 20)

VAS [Median (IQR)]

7 (5-8)

Duration of untreated attack in hours [Median (IQR)]

6 (4- 24)

Abortive treatment

 Paracetamol [n (%)]

32 (32%)

 NSAIDs [n (%)]

31 (31%)

 Triptans [n (%)]

19 (19%)

 Combined [n (%)]

18 (18%)

Response to Abortive treatment

 

 Good [n (%)]

35 (35%)

 Moderate [n (%)]

40 (40%)

 Poor [n (%)]

25 (25%)

Age at onset of IBS [Median (IQR)]

24 (20- 30)

Type of IBS

 Constipation -predominant [n (%)]

36 (36%)

 Diarrhea -predominant [n (%)]

10 (10%)

 Unclassified -IBS [n (%)]

25 (25%)

 Mixed -diarrhea-and-constipation [n (%)]

29 (29%)

 IBS severity scoring system [Median (IQR)]

300 (222.5- 400)

  1. BMI Body mass index, IBS Irritable bowel syndrome, IQR Interquartile range, VAS Visual analogue scale