The expanding burden of neurological disorders

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

New estimates of the global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system are reported in an updated analysis 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 disability (YLDs), years of life lost (YLLs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) attributable to diseases and conditions that cause dysfunction of the nervous system. The new report builds upon previous GBD analyses,² which have established global standards for the estimation of the burden of diseases, by including data up to 2021 and by expanding the number of studied conditions substantially, from 15 to 37.

See also: 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 national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet Neurol. 2024; (published online Mar 14.) https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00038-3 
2. GBD 2016 Neurology Collaborators Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurol. 2019; 18: 459-480