Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures.
1 It affects an estimated 50 million people worldwide with no socio-demographic boundary …

Patients with epilepsy carry a risk of premature death which is on average two to three times
higher than in the general population. The risk of death is not homogenously distributed over …

Mortality rates are two to three times higher in people with epilepsy than in the general
population. This study aimed to quantify how this increased mortality translates into reduced …

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes changes in the autonomic nervous system.
Heart rate variability (HRV) reflects the regulation of cardiac activity and autonomic nervous …

Background We conducted a systematic review to ascertain the overall mortality and causes
of premature mortality in epilepsy. Methodology We searched PubMed and Embase to …

Evidence based noninvasive presurgical evaluation for patien... : Current Opinion in Neurology
Evidence based noninvasive presurgical evaluation for patients with drug resistant epilepsies …

Objective To determine the incidence of epilepsy among Medicare beneficiaries with a new
diagnosis of Alzheimer dementia (AD) or Parkinson disease (PD). Methods Retrospective …

Objective Studies using relative measures, such as standardized mortality ratios, have
shown that patients with epilepsy have an increased mortality. Reports on more direct and …

Objective To determine the incidence of epilepsy and subsequent 5-year mortality among
older adults, as well as characteristics associated with mortality. Methods This was a …

Objective Epilepsies are severe chronic neurological diseases that impair several domains
in life and are often accompanied by various somatic and psychiatric comorbidities …