The burden associated with headache is a major public health problem, the true magnitude
of which has not been fully acknowledged until now. Globally, the percentage of the adult …

At the turn of the century, most of the world's population lived in regions where the
prevalence of headache was unknown and its impact poorly understood. Lifting The Burden …

From time to time, there is news that is of particular consequence to all people affected by
headache. In December 2012, Lancet published the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 …

Headache disorders are ubiquitous. Their lifetime prevalence is over 90% in those
populations that have been studied. Pain, suffering, and disability caused by headache …

Robust and increasing evidence suggests that headache should be taken seriously as a
public health problem, not only in the rich countries. More studies on the impact of …

The present review of epidemiologic studies on migraine and headache in Europe is part of
a larger initiative by the European Brain Council to estimate the costs incurred because of …

Regular or frequent use of analgesics and acute antimigraine drugs can increase the
frequency of headache, and induce the transition from episodic to chronic headache or …

This classification and the corresponding diagnostic criteria were initially released as a beta
document in 2014; since then, they have been widely accepted and should now form the …

Summary Background Through the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors
(GBD) studies, headache has emerged as a major global public health concern. We aimed …

This study, which is a part of the initiative'Lifting The Burden: The Global Campaign to
Reduce the Burden of Headache Worldwide', assesses and presents all existing evidence of …