Migraine remains second among the world’s causes of disability, and first among young women: findings from GBD2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s10194- 020- 01208- 0

[Section 1] The approach takes away the spotlight from disabling diseases that do not cause early death—such as headache disorders.

Headache disorders in 2019 ranked 14th among global causes of DALYs (all

ages, both genders) [114].

Among females aged 15–49  years, headache disorders (1016.1) were second

only to gynaecological diseases (1230.5), with depressive disorders third (890.4).

The level-3 grouping of headache disorders in GBD2019 includes only specific diseases: migraine and tension-type headache (TTH), each with medication-overuse headache (MOH) as a sequela factored in according to the proportion of MOH attributed to it [114].

The authors of the GBD2019 report wrote: “The prominent position of headache disorders in the DALY rankings in the 10–24-year and 25–49-year age groups has received little attention in global health policy debates” [114].

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Acknowledgement A machine generated summary based on the work of Steiner, T. J.; Stovner, L. J.; Jensen, R.; Uluduz, D.; Katsarava, Z.; 2020 in The Journal of Headache and Pain.

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