Cause-specific mortality in epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue SUPPL. 11, 2005, Pages 36-39

  Lhatoo, Samden D ^a,b   Sander, Josemir W A S ^b  

^a FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SUDDEN DEATH; SUDDEN UNEXPECTED DEATH IN EPILEPSY; SUICIDE; WITNESS; ACCIDENT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; INCIDENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACCIDENTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEATH, SUDDEN; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644771230     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00406.x     Document Type: Review

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