Original title: Migraine remains second among the world’s causes of disability, and first among young women: findings from GBD2019
The paper discusses how migraine ranks in the 2019 Global Burden of Disease studyAn effort to estimate health loss from diseases and injuries across countries and over time.. That study compares health loss across countries and conditions. Its main ranking measure combines years lost to early death with years lived in poor health. The authors note that migraine ranks second among the world’s causes of disability and first among young women, while headache disorders rank 14th for combined health loss across all ages and genders.
Imagine a school ranking that combines days students miss with days they attend while feeling too unwell to take part. A problem that rarely keeps anyone away completely may still quietly affect many students, but the combined score can hide that burden. In this paper, early deaths and time lived with disability are combined in one ranking, which can make disabling conditions such as headache disorders less visible.
Migraine can take away healthy years even when it does not cause early death. That makes it easy to overlook when health rankings combine disability with years lost to premature death, despite its high burden for young women.
The abstract excerpt gives no methods or supporting figures for migraine’s rankings, and it does not explain how rankings differ by age or gender beyond the title’s claim about young women. It also notes that the capstone results do not separately report years lived with disability. The excerpt ends mid-sentence, so it does not provide the full comparison with other disorders.
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Migraine remains second among the world’s causes of disability, and first among young women: findings from GBD2019 — on behalf of Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache, Timothy J. Steiner, Lars Jacob Stovner et al. — The Journal of Headache and Pain — doi:10.1186/s10194-020-01208-0
Abstract licence: CC BY
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