52% of the world’s population, or more than one in two people on Earth, have headaches each year (16% on a daily basis), while 14% or about one in seven have migraines, according to a new international scientific study. New data highlights headaches as one of the most prevalent disorders in the world.
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, led by Dr. Lars Jacob Stovner, who published the journal in the medical journal Headache and Pain, evaluated data from 357 published studies from 1961-2020. which concerned different countries and people of different ages.
Taking into account the available data, it is estimated that almost 5% of people (one in 20) experience headaches for more than 15 days a month, while 16% of the world’s population – one in seven – have a headache every day and 7% migraine. All types of headaches are more common in women than in men, especially migraines (17% of women versus 8.6% of men), while the same is true of headaches that last for at least 15 days a month ( 6% of women versus almost 3% of men).
“Evidence shows that headaches and migraines are likely to increase. However, what is clear in general is that headache disorders are widespread worldwide,” Stowner said, so more prevention and better efforts are needed. treatment.
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