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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics and 1-year prevalence of headaches classified by gender

From: Prevalence of primary headache disorders among information technology staff in China: the negative effects of computer use and other correlative factors

 

Total (n = 2012,%)

Men (n = 1544, %)

Women (n = 468, %)

Age(years)

 18–30

702 (34.9)

526 (34.1)

176 (37.6)

 31–40

718 (35.7)

549 (35.6)

169 (36.1)

 41–50

385 (19.1)

293 (19.0)

92 (19.7)

 51–60

207 (10.3)

176 (11.3)

31 (6.6)

Mean age (SD) years

36.0 ± 9.2

36.1 ± 8.3

35.8 ± 9.0

Education

 Bachelor or lower

1097 (54.5)

830 (53.8)

267 (57.1)

 Master or higher

915 (45.5)

714 (46.2)

201 (42.9)

Marriage

 single

611 (30.4)

436 (28.2)

175 (37.4)

 married

1401 (69.6)

1108 (71.8)

293 (62.6)

Work experience (years)

 1–5

888 (44.1)

664 (43.0)

224 (47.9)

 6–10

681 (33.8)

514 (33.3)

167 (35.7)

 10-

443 (22.1)

366 (23.7)

77 (16.4)

Headache, all types

619 (30.8)

396 (25.6)

223 (47.7)

Migraine

152 (7.6)

81 (5.2)

71 (15.2)

Migraine without aura

107 (5.3)

48 (3.1)

59 (12.6)

Migraine with aura

17 (0.8)

13 (0.8)

4 (0.9)

Probable migraine

28 (1.4)

20 (1.3)

8 (1.7)

Chronic migraine

0

0

0

TTH

440 (21.9)

297 (19.2)

143 (30.6)

  infrequent episodic TTH

233 (11.6)

156 (10.1)

77 (16.5)

  frequent episodic TTH

117 (5.8)

82 (5.3)

35 (1.7)

  Probable TTH

74 (3.7)

51 (3.3)

23 (4.9)

Chronic TTH

12 (0.6)

4 (0.2)

8 (0.4)

aUnclassified headache

27 (1.3)

18 (1.2)

9 (1.9)

  1. aUnclassified headache include 3.1 cluster headache (7 cases), 3.2 Paroxysmal hemicranias (5 cases), 4.2 Primary exercise headache (5 cases), 4.5 Cold-stimulus headache (8 cases) and 4.8 Nummular headache (2 cases)