Statistics about Tension headache
| About statistics: This page presents a variety of statistics about Tension headache. The term 'prevalence' of Tension headache usually refers to the estimated population of people who are managing Tension headache at any given time. The term 'incidence' of Tension headache refers to the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Tension headache diagnosed each year. Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence, but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence. For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics. |
Society statistics for Tension headache
Hospitalization statistics for Tension headache: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Tension headache:
- 0.013% (1,632) of hospital consultant episodes were for tension-type headache in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 85% of hospital consultant episodes for tension-type headache required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 39% of hospital consultant episodes for tension-type headache were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 61% of hospital consultant episodes for tension-type headache were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 82% of hospital consultant episodes for tension-type headache required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 2.1 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for tension-type headache in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 1 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for tension-type headache in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 41 was the mean age of patients hospitalised for tension-type headache in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 80% of hospital consultant episodes for tension-type headache occurred in 15-59 year olds in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 4% of hospital consultant episodes for tension-type headache occurred in people over 75 in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 2.6% of hospital consultant episodes for tension-type headache were single day episodes in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0.005% (2,758) of hospital bed days were for tension-type headache in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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