Andreas Kattem Husøy

Andreas Kattem Husøy is a neurologist resident at St. Olav’s University Hospital and a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on headache disorders, in particular how they affect the general public, and he is involved in several clinical and epidemiological studies.

Why 1 in 3 People Worldwide Suffer From Headaches

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Pain medication misuse can stem from inadequate awareness around the global burden of headaches

A horizontal bar chart titled “Headaches Cause More Harm in Women.” The chart shows age-standardized years lived with disability (YLDs) per 100,000 people in 2023, comparing women (dark blue) and men (yellow). For all headache disorders, women experience roughly twice the YLDs of men. The gap is larger for migraine, with women showing substantially higher disability than men. For tension-type headache, disability levels are much lower overall but remain higher in women than men. Source: IHME; chart by CFR/Allison Krugman for Think Global Health.