Global, regional, and national burden of migraine and tension-type headache, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Publication date: November 2018Source: The Lancet Neurology, Volume 17, Issue 11Author(s): Lars Jacob Stovner, Emma Nichols, Timothy J Steiner, Foad Abd-Allah, Ahmed Abdelalim, Rajaa M Al-Raddadi, Mustafa Geleto Ansha, Aleksandra Barac, Isabela M Bensenor, Linh Phuong Doan, Dumessa Edessa, Matthias Endres, Kyle J Foreman, Fortune Gbetoho Gankpe, Gururaj Gopalkrishna, Alessandra C Goulart, Rahul Gupta, Graeme J Hankey, Simon I Hay, Mohamed I HegazySummaryBackgroundThrough the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) studies, headache has emerged as a major global public health concern. We aimed to use data from the GBD 2016 study to provide new estimates for prevalence and years of life lived with disability (YLDs) for migraine and tension-type headache and to present the methods and results in an accessible way for clinicians and researchers of headache disorders.MethodsData were derived from population-based cross-sectional surveys on migraine and tension-type headache. Prevalence for each sex and 5-year age group interval (ie, age 5 years to ≥95 years) at different time points from 1990 and 2016 in all countries and GBD regions were estimated using a Bayesian meta-regression model. Disease burden measured in YLDs was calculated from prevalence and average time spent with headache multiplied by disability weights (a measure of the relative severity of the disabling consequence of a disease). The burden stemming from medication overuse headache, which was...
Source: The Lancet Neurology - Category: Neurology Source Type: research