Cause-specific mortality in adults with unprovoked seizures: A population-based incidence cohort study

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 232-236

  Rafnsson, Vilhjálmur ^a,d   Ólafsson, Elias ^b   Hauser, W Allen ^c   Gudmundsson, Gunnar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d Department of Preventive Medicine ^*  (Iceland)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Iceland; Mortality; Seizures; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICELAND; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; VIOLENCE;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 0035742070     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054795     Document Type: Article

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