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Patients were selected in two strata, based on either (1) self-reported hypertension/diabetes (morbid sample) or (2) a random sample.
The morbid sample was characterised by a higher age and BMI and a lower proportion of smokers as compared with the random sample.
This was a highly morbid sample by structured interview (SCID); excluding conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder, 88% (N = 571) of male and 92% (N = 129) of females had a psychiatric disorder in the prior year.
Participants were included based on (1) the presence of self-reported diabetes mellitus and/or medically treated hypertension (morbid sample) and (2) a 5% randomly selected sample of the total population (random sample).
Furthermore, the design of the study allowed us to evaluate the association between headache status and UAE in a random sample as well as a morbid sample, which included a high proportion of participants with hypertension and diabetes types I and II, well-known risk factors for increased UAE.
In total, 303 participants with migraine, 1009 participants with non-migraine headache and 5287 headache-free participants were included in the study, in which the morbid sample constituted 3688 medically treated hypertensive participants, 647 diabetic participants and 413 participants with both medically treated hypertension and diabetes mellitus.
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Baseline characteristics for the random and morbid samples are shown in table 1.
Similarly, no association between headache status and ACR was seen when the analysis was stratified for morbid and random samples, or for migraine with and without aura.
A similar pattern was observed when morbid and random samples were combined; crude data indicated an association between ACR and headache status, but this effect was explained by differences in age and sex, table 3.
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The unadjusted analysis indicated an association between ACR and headache status in the morbid, random and combined samples.
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