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Table 5 Additional diagnostic performed in pregnant women presenting with acute headache

From: Characteristics and diagnoses of acute headache in pregnant women – a retrospective cross-sectional study

Feature

Missing

All headache

Primary headache

Secondary headache

p value

Any additive diagnostic

145 (96.0%)

82 (94.3%)

63 (98.4%)

0.193

Additive blood test

143 (94.7%)

81 (93.1%)

62 (96.9%)

0.307

Abnormal blood test

8 (5.3%)

127 (88.8%)

69 (85.2%)

58 (93.5%)

0.116

Abnormal Hb

10 (6.6%)

72 (51.1%)

43 (53.8%)

29 (47.5%)

0.465

Abnormal Erythrocytes

10 (6.6%)

46 (32.6%)

27 (33.8%)

19 (31.1%)

0.774

Abnormal Leucocytes

10 (6.6%)

64 (45.4%)

33 (41.3%)

31 (50.8%)

0.258

Abnormal Thrombocytes

10 (6.6%)

14 (9.9%)

4 (5.0%)

10 (16.4%)

0.025*

Abnormal Quick

35 (23.2%)

2 (1.7%)

2 (3.1%)

0 (0.0%)

0.198

Abnormal PTT

35 (23.2%)

3 (2.6%)

1 (1.5%)

2 (3.9%)

0.422

Abnormal D-Dimers

103 (68.2%)

33 (68.8%)

17 (60.7%)

16 (80.0%)

0.155

Abnormal Creatinin

25 (16.6%)

13 (10.3%)

7 (9.9%)

6 (10.9%)

0.848

Abnormal Na

44 (29.1%)

12 (11.2%)

5 (8.5%)

7 (14.6%)

0.319

Abnormal K

44 (29.1%)

9 (8.4%)

4 (6.8%)

5 (10.4%)

0.500

Abnormal GOT

73 (48.3%)

13 (16.7%)

1 (2.3%)

12 (35.3%)

0.000*

Abnormal GPT

60 (39.7%)

7 (7.7%)

1 (2.0%)

7 (17.5%)

0.006*

Abnormal CRP

26 (17.2%)

54 (43.2%)

21 (30.4%)

33 (58.9%)

0.001*

Proteinuria

65 (43.0%)

14 (16.3%)

4 (8.5%)

10 (25.6%)

0.032*

Additive lumbar punction

20 (13.2%)

9 (10.3%)

11 (17.2%)

0.220

Pathologic LP results

131 (86.8%)

4 (20.0%)

0 (0.0%)

4 (36.4%)

0.043*

Neuroimaging

76 (50.3%)

40 (46.0%)

36 (56.3%)

0.212

Pathologic neuroimaging results

75 (49.7%)

29 (38.2%)

5 (12.5%)

24 (66.7%)

0.000*

  1. * = statistical significant (p < 0.05). Subgroup proportions were compared using χ2 test