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01-05-2013 | TREATMENT
Burden of migraine: international perspectives
Authors:
M. Leonardi, A. Raggi
Published in:
Neurological Sciences
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Abstract
The newly released version of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD 2010) ranks migraine between the most disabling diseases, the first among neurological ones, with a two-fold increase with respect to the previous GBD 2000 version. Almost 3 % of worldwide disability attributable to a specific disease, in terms of years lived with a disability, is due to migraine. The public health impact of migraine and headache disorders is thus a consolidated fact; however, further research is needed to provide stronger recognition of and policy actions for headache disorders in general, and in particular with regard to chronic forms of headache.