Sander, JW;
Keezer, MR;
(2016)
Epilepsy: Trends in new-onset epilepsy - the importance of comorbidities.
Nature Reviews Neurology
, 12
pp. 254-256.
10.1038/nrneurol.2016.32.
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Abstract
A recent longitudinal study indicates that the incidence of new-onset epilepsy has remained stable in children and young adults but has increased in elderly individuals over the past 40 years. Rather than signalling a failure to prevent epilepsy, however, this phenomenon might be attributable to the comorbidities of epilepsy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Epilepsy: Trends in new-onset epilepsy - the importance of comorbidities |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/nrneurol.2016.32 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2016.32 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. |
| Keywords: | Epidemiology, Epilepsy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1477063 |
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