Author: Andreas Kattem Husøy, Yvonne Yiru Xu, and Timothy J. Steiner
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World Neurology| Insights Into Headache Disorders
Article Link: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/insights-into-headache-disorders ⧉
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) report, the most comprehensive study of death and health loss globally, probably needs no introduction to most readers. New estimates for the entire series (from 1990 onward) are published every two years. The standardized method, including calculation of years lived with disability (YLD), allows for a comparison of the burden between disorders.
A new insight emerging from the GBD report, made possible through modeling refinements, is the gender gap in headache-attributed health loss is larger than previously estimated. Females carry more than twice the burden of males, owing not only to a higher prevalence of migraine among females but also to females having higher frequency and longer duration headache episodes than their male counterparts.
Continue to the full article for a deeper dive into headache disorders.
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