Abstract
Global burden of neurological disease: what's in a name?
Highlights
Some of the findings are not surprising
Overall age-standardised DALYs, and deaths from all neurological disorders decreased between 1990 and 2015, the number of people with neurological diseases increased substantially, with the number of deaths from neurological disorders increasing by 36·7%, and the number of DALYs by 7·4%
Neurological diseases that more commonly occur in elderly people, such as Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, Parkinson’s disease, and neurological cancers, are probably driving these overall neurological disease indices
Summary
Some of the findings are not surprising. Headaches represented the most prevalent neurological disorders: tension-type headache Overall age-standardised DALYs, and deaths from all neurological disorders decreased between 1990 and 2015, the number of people with neurological diseases increased substantially, with the number of deaths from neurological disorders increasing by 36·7%, and the number of DALYs by 7·4%. Neurological diseases that more commonly occur in elderly people, such as Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, Parkinson’s disease, and neurological cancers, are probably driving these overall neurological disease indices.
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