Disease burden of migraine and tension-type headache in non-high-income East and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The world faces severe challenges from migraine and tension-type headache (TTH), which cause grave disability to patients and place a heavy burden on their caregivers. However, headaches in specific individual regions have rarely been investigated. Therefore, we aimed to fully analyse and describe the current status and changing trends in migraine and TTH in non-high-income East and Southeast Asia to provide more detailed real-world information for policy-making.

Methods

The migraine and TTH data used for analysis were all extracted from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database. We adopted three major indicators of disease burden, including prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability (YLD), and two major metrics, including the absolute number and the

SUBMITTER: Ge R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10041715 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature