...Yang Zhang; Changling Li; Ning Chen; Jinghuan Fang; Mengmeng Ma; Peiqi He; Li He Introduction: Migraine and other types of primary headache are widely prevalent and are thought to have substantial economic implications on a global scale. Nevertheless, the precise prevalence rates in China exhibited...

... Prevalence Ivermectin Control A large cross-sectional study conducted in 2010–2011 in 25 sub-counties in northern Uganda revealed a high epilepsy prevalence of 3.7%, with considerable variations across locations [ 1 ]. Awach (Gulu district) exhibited the highest prevalence at 6.6%, primarily...

...: The data on disease burden of AD and other dementias during 1990–2021 were extracted from Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors Study 2021 (GBD 2021). Average annual percentage changes (AAPCs) of age-standardized prevalence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) were estimated...

... in prevalence across sub-Saharan African countries. Northern Uganda is one of the poorest areas of the country and has seen a high density of pigs and a prevalence of Taenia solium , a zoonotic tapeworm transmitted which causes neurocysticercosis in humans. The objective of this study was to estimate...

...Heather Cruickshank; Zosia Miedzybrodzka Introduction: Previous work demonstrated a prevalence of 14.6 per 100,000 manifest Huntington’s disease (HD) patients and 8.3 per 100,000 identified pre-symptomatic gene expansion carriers (IPGEC) in Northern Scotland. Many of those at high risk of having...

... Puhan; Viktor von Wyl; on behalf of the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Registry (SMSR) Introduction: Understanding the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) provides information for healthcare planning and helps identify trends and patterns of disease occurrence. For Switzerland, the number of persons with MS...

...Xingzhu Li; Tianyu Jin; Chen Bai; Xianna Wang; Haojie Zhang; Tong Zhang Introduction: This study aimed to describe the temporal trends of stroke burden in different age and sex groups in China from 1990 to 2021, including incidence, prevalence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs...

... Introduction: No systematic reviews were published in the last years investigating epidemiological data, involving myasthenia gravis (MG) and related myasthenic syndromes. This systematic review aimed to estimate the prevalence, incidence, and mortality of all MG types and myasthenic syndromes worldwide...

...Armin Karamian; Brandon Lucke-Wold; Ali Seifi Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. It has been estimated that 64–74 million individuals experience TBI from all causes each year. Due to these variations in reporting TBI prevalence...

..., compared to men. The prevalence of these symptoms decreases after 1 year, based on limited data from the small number of studies available beyond this period. [email protected] 3 05 2024 31 07 2024 19 08 2024 © 2024 The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel Open Access...

...Gökçe Zeytin Demiral; Ülkü Türk Börü; Cem Bölük; Hakan Acar; Furkan İncebacak Background: Population-based studies examining the prevalence of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and persistent idiopathic facial pain (PIFP) are rare, and data on TN prevalence in Türkiye are very limited, with the prevalence...

... Palladino; Elena Salvatore; Marcello Moccia Objective: The aims of this study were to provide population-based estimates of prevalence and incidence of any dementia and Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) in the Campania region (South Italy) and to validate towards a clinical registry. Methods: This was a population...

... prevalence ratios were reported. Regression analyses were run to understand the association between screening outcome and wellbeing, social isolation, and employment status (adjusted for age, sex, literacy, geography, and social status). Results: Of the 3,546 older adults who were screened for dementia, 652...

... of nontraumatic disability in this population. The rising prevalence of MS worldwide makes it critical to recognize the absolute number of patients with MS, demanding the execution of a sustainable healthcare policy. In Portugal, only six studies evaluating MS rates were published, disclosing a prevalence of 64...

... Events (PRECISE) study were included in this study from 2017 to 2019. All participants underwent 3 Tesla brain magnetic resonance images to assess CSVD imaging markers. Demographic and risk factor data were collected. The general and age-specific prevalence of lacune, confluent white matter...

...Corrado Zenesini; Laura Maria Beatrice Belotti; Flavia Baccari; Elisa Baldin; Ben Ridley; Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura; Pietro Cortelli; Roberto D’Alessandro; Francesco Nonino; Luca Vignatelli Introduction: Health administrative databases are widely used for the estimation of the prevalence...

...Mirka Hanhisuanto; Eino Solje; Manu Jokela; Jussi O.T. Sipilä Introduction: The incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) worldwide is approximately 1–2.6/1,000,000 and prevalence is 5–6/100,000. ALS has been suggested to be relatively common in Finland, but epidemiological information...

... incidence and prevalence rates have been reported. Epidemiological data on prevalence and incidence in Germany are lacking. Furthermore, the MG treatment landscape is rapidly changing due to the continued approval of novel monoclonal antibodies. Method: This is a retrospective study assessing incidence...

...Ahmed Al Rumayyan; Ashraf Alharthi; Mohammad Al-Rowaili; Sameer Al-Mehmadi; Waleed Altwaijri; Talal Alrifai; Motasim Badri Introduction: The global prevalence of active epilepsy is around 6.38/1,000 persons. In the Arabian region, the median prevalence of active epilepsy is 4.4/1,000 persons...

...) of the prevalence and DALYs of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias increased from 1990 to 2019, and their EAPCs were 0.66 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.57–0.75) and 0.26 (95% CI, 0.21–0.31), respectively. ASRs and the total number of dementia in females remained higher than in males, but the upward trend...