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(Message started by: aprilbee on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 10:22am)

Title: Oklahoma CH interviews!
Post by aprilbee on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 10:22am

I have a question for those who are being interviewed..

How many are women? I'm just curious if the famle voice will be heard in this story.

Thanks for your input!

April Bee

Title: Re: Oklahoma CH interviews!
Post by The mad viking on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 10:29am

The numbers over here are 5-2
5 Men on 2 women

As far as i know

Title: Re: Oklahoma CH interviews!
Post by chewy on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 10:50am

That is a very valid question as women are still believed to not have CH.

Quote:

5 Men on 2 women

To easy. Not touching it. 8)

Title: Re: Oklahoma CH interviews!
Post by aprilbee on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 11:41am

on 10/02/06 at 10:50:32, chewy wrote:

To easy. Not touching it. 8)

me either!! :D

Title: Re: Oklahoma CH interviews!
Post by JeffB on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 11:48am

;;D
I want to, but I won't.

Title: Re: Oklahoma CH interviews!
Post by aprilbee on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 12:09pm

so from the responses so far....no one knows I guess...I really hope the female voice gets heard, I know it's only Oklahoma, but it's a start! I still see information stating that women are rarely affected by this...that is certainly not the case from what I see here!

Title: Re: Oklahoma CH interviews!
Post by chewy on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 12:57pm

We can always send in a wringer.

The Canadians should be easy to convince that they actually reside in Oklahoma. 8)

Title: Re: Oklahoma CH interviews!
Post by Linda_Howell on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 1:21pm

The male to female ratio is a lot different here. I wonder why.

Quote:

male-to-female (M/F) ratio of cluster headache (CH) over the years were investigated through a comparative analysis of the distribution of the disease by sex and decade of onset in 482 patients (374M and 108F). Variations over the last few decades were also investigated in the employment rate, level of school education, smoking habit, and coffee and alcohol intake of the population living in the same area as the CH patients. The M/F ratio has fallen from 6.2:1 for patients with CH onset before 1960, to 5.6:1, 4.3:1, 3.0:1, and 2.1:1 for patients with CH onset in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively. Correspondingly, in those same decades, the M/F ratio has fallen from 2.6:1 to 2.4:1, 2.2:1, and 1.7:1, respectively, for the employment rate, and from 8.6:1 to 7.8:1, 3.3:1, 2.5:1, and 1.9:1 for the smoking habit. Such a close correlation suggests that the significant changes that have occurred over the last few decades in the lifestyle of both sexes--and particularly that of women--may have played a major role in altering the gender ratio of CH.

PMID: 9595206 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE

Linda

Title: Re: Oklahoma CH interviews!
Post by aprilbee on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 2:54pm

on 10/02/06 at 13:21:11, Linda_Howell wrote:

The male to female ratio is a lot different here. I wonder why.

Linda

Thanks Linda!