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Neurological conditions now leading cause of ill-health worldwide, finds study The analysis in the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors study suggested that the total amount of disability, illness and premature death caused by 37 neurological conditions increased by just over 18% from about 375m years of healthy life lost in 1990 to 443m years in 2021.
In the UK, figures from Brain Research UK show one in six people have some form of neurological condition, with 2.6 million people living with the effects of traumatic brain injury or stroke.There are more than 944,000 people in the UK who have dementia, with the numbers expected to increase to more than a million by 2030.
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