Grisold W. The expanding burden of neurological disorders. The Lancet Neurology. 2024 Mar 14. ⧉

New estimates of the worldwide, regional, and nationwide burden of problems affecting the nervous system are reported in an up to date evaluation from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021.¹

In their Article in The Lancet Neurology, the GBD 2021 Nervous System Disorders Collaborators report mortality, prevalence, years lived with incapacity (YLDs), years of life misplaced (YLLs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) attributable to ailments and circumstances that trigger dysfunction of the nervous system. The new report builds upon earlier GBD analyses,² which have established world requirements for the estimation of the burden of ailments, by together with knowledge as much as 2021 and by increasing the variety of studied circumstances considerably, from 15 to 37.

See additionally: Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 ⧉

References

1. GBD 2021 Nervous System Disorders Collaborators Global, regional, and nationwide burden of problems affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a scientific evaluation for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet Neurol. 2024; (revealed on-line Mar 14.) https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00038-3 
2. GBD 2016 Neurology Collaborators Global, regional, and nationwide burden of neurological problems, 1990–2016: a scientific evaluation for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurol. 2019; 18: 459-480