Burden of epilepsy in Latin America and The Caribbean: a trend analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2019

K Pacheco-Barrios, A Navarro-Flores… - … Health–Americas, 2022 - thelancet.com
… on epilepsy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) (Latin America [Title/Abstract] AND
epilepsy [… Eleven studies addressed the epilepsy burden globally or focusing on other regions (…

Understanding the burden of epilepsy in Latin America: a systematic review of its prevalence and incidence

JG Burneo, J Tellez-Zenteno, S Wiebe - Epilepsy research, 2005 - Elsevier
… Measuring the global burden of disease in Latin America requires adequate … and incidence
rates of epilepsy in the general population of Latin America than in northern hemisphere …

Prevalence and incidence of epilepsy in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of population‐based studies

C Alva‐Díaz, A Navarro‐Flores, O Rivera‐Torrejon… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Geographical distribution of active epilepsy prevalence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Gray shading represents countries with no data. Darker tones of red represent higher …

Burden of epilepsy in Colombia

A Méndez-Ayala, D Nariño, D Rosselli - Neuroepidemiology, 2015 - karger.com
… This value is in the low range of the estimate for Latin America … for epilepsy in Colombia has
not been estimated locally, we used the figures reported in the 2004 update of global burden

[HTML][HTML] Collaborative scientific production of epilepsy in Latin America from 1989 to 2018: A bibliometric analysis

C Morán-Mariños, J Pacheco-Mendoza, T Metcalf… - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
… growing incidence of epilepsy cases in Latin America. This study aimed to analyze and describe
scientific research output trends in epilepsy research for … The global burden of epilepsy. …

The global burden of epilepsy

M Leonardi, TB Ustun - Epilepsia, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… economic burden of epilepsy has moved this disorder higher on the world’s agenda, epilepsy
still … of epilepsy, as outlined in the the WHO World Health Report 2001, are important. The …

An estimation of global volume of surgically treatable epilepsy based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of epilepsy

KA Vaughan, CL Ramos, VP Buch, RA Mekary… - Journal of …, 2018 - thejns.org
… The highest prevalences are found in Africa and Latin America, although the highest … global
burden of surgically treatable epilepsy (STE). There have also been no studies on the global

Global macroeconomic burden of epilepsy and the role for neurosurgery: a modelling study based upon the 2016 Global Burden of Disease data

TJ O'Donohoe, A Choudhury… - European journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… estimated on a global scale. We sought to: (i) estimate the value of lost economic welfare
attributable to epilepsy among countries included in the 2016 Global Burden of Disease study, (…

The global cost of epilepsy: a systematic review and extrapolation

C Begley, RG Wagner, A Abraham, E Beghi… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… cost for people with epilepsy by country in 2019 US dollars (USD… epilepsy prevalence in each
country from the Global Burden … gap, and aggregated to arrive at regional and global costs. …

Epilepsy in poor regions of the world

CR Newton, HH Garcia - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
… Over 85% of the global burden of epilepsy occurs in the 49% of the population living in
low-… for about 30% of seizure disorders in endemic regions (most of Latin America, Africa, the …