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(Medical-NewsWire.com, December 23, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA -- It has been found that lower back pain is a common phenomena among Indians, and has been found to be one of the leading causes of “years lived with disability” (YLD) globally.
The Global Disease Burden study was published Thursday, and showed that lower back pain has caused over 83 million YLDs spanning across the world in 2010. Pains that stemmed from the neck, along with spinal/neck depressive disorders, and iron deficiency anemia has makes up some of the leading causes of YLD. In 1990, a study found that there were 583 million YLDs from all causes. That number has risen to 777 in 2010.
The top causes of YLDs are mental, behavioral, and musculoskeletal disorders that range in type and severity. Diabetes and endocrine diseases also are among the leading contributors to YLDs worldwide.
Many of the same culprits show up in the 2010 listing as were involved int eh 1990 tallies. The study noted 289 diseases and injuries that help lead to impact of health and their global prevalence. It identified 220 consequences of disease and injury that aided in the onset of disability.
A startling 1.3 billion people were affected by hearing loss, while vision loss affected another 661 million.
The study noted that non-fatal health contributors from disease and injury are important for monitoring and treating individual and populous health.
Musculoskeletal disorders, such as arthritis and back pain, as well as mental and behavioral diseases such as depression and schizophrenia were some of the leading causes of YLD. These affliction accounted for almost half of all YLDs.
Professor Alan Lopez of the School of Population Health of Queensland stated: "In an era in which the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have focused global health attention on prevention of mortality from selected diseases, it is important to realize that health is about more than avoiding death. Health priorities have, for much of the past 100 years or more, been largely driven by the imperative of improving the survival of populations, particularly child survival."
Professor Theo Vos added, "This was justified, in view of the technologies available to treat and prevent childhood illness. However, societies spend substantial and increasing resources on keeping people healthy and alleviating disease, not only on keeping them alive into old age. As health care costs are rising fast, it is essential to provide governments with adequate information on how best to prioritize their health services to most adequately address the prevailing health problems."
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