The epidemiology of the comorbidity of epilepsy in the general population

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1613-1622

  Gaitatzis, Athanasios ^a,b   Carroll, Kevin ^c   Majeed, Azeem ^d   Sander, Josemir W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Epilepsy; General practice

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MENTAL DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 10644261286     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.17504.x     Document Type: Article

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