Mortality of epilepsy in developed countries: A review

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue SUPPL. 11, 2005, Pages 18-27

  Forsgren, Lars ^a   Hauser, W Allen ^b   Olafsson, Elias ^c   Sander, J W A S ^d   Sillanpää, Matti ^e   Tomson, Torbjörn ^f  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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

^c LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Mortality; Prognosis; Seizure

Indexed keywords

AGE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CANCER RISK; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; HUMAN; ICELAND; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SUDDEN DEATH; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; NOMENCLATURE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEATH, SUDDEN; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33644781763     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00403.x     Document Type: Review

References (55)

1. Hauser WA, Hesdorffer D. Epilepsy: frequency, causes and consequences. New York: Demos Publications, 1990.
2. Commission on Epidemiology and Prognosis. International league against epilepsy. Guidelines for epidemiologic studies on epilepsy. Epilepsia 1993;34:592-6.
3. Murray CJL, Lopez AD. The global and regional cause-of-death patterns in 1990. Bull World Health Organ 1994;72:447-80.
4. Zielinski JJ. Epilepsy and mortality rate and cause of death. Epilepsia 1974;15:191-201.
5. Hauser WA, Annegers J, Elveback L. Mortality in patients with epilepsy. Epilepsia 1980;21:399-412.
6. Cockerell O, Johnson A, Sander JWAS, et al. Mortality from epilepsy: results from a prospective population based study. Lancet 1994;344:918-21.
7. Olafsson E, Hauser WA, Gudmundsson G. Long-term survival of people with unprovoked seizures: a population-based study. Epilepsia 1998;39:89-92.
8. Loiseau J, Picot M-C, Loiseau P. Short-term mortality after a first epileptic seizure: a population-based study. Epilepsia 1999;40:1388-93.
9. Lindsten H, Nyström L, Forsgren L. Mortality in an adult cohort with newly diagnosed unprovoked epileptic seizure. A population-based study. Epilepsia 2000;41:1469-73.
10. Lhatoo SD, Johnson AL, Goodridge DM, et al. Mortality in epilepsy in the first 11-14 years after diagnosis: multivariate analysis of a long-term, prospective, population-based cohort. Ann Neurol 2001;49:336-44.
11. Annegers JF, Hauser JF, Shirts SB. Heart disease mortality and morbidity in patients with epilepsy. Epilepsia 1984;25:699-704.
12. Hauser WA, Annegers JF, Rocca WA. Descriptive epidemiology of epilepsy: contributions of population-based studies from Rochester, Minnesota. Mayo Clin Proc 1996;71:576-86.
13. Sillanpää M, Jalava M, Kaleva O, et al. Long-term prognosis of seizures with onset in childhood. N Engl J Med 1998;338:1715-22.
14. Harvey AS, Nolan T, Carlin JB. Community-based study of mortality in children with epilepsy. Epilepsia 1993;34:597-603.
15. Camfield CS, Camfield PR, Veugelers PJ. Death in children with epilepsy: a population-based study. Lancet 2002;359:1891-5.
16. Alström CH. A study of epilepsy in its clinical, social and genetic aspects. Acta Neurol Scand 1950;(suppl. 63):1-284.
17. Henriksen B, Juul-Jensen P, Lund M. The mortality of epilepsy. In: Brackenridge RDC, ed. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Life Insurance Medicine. London: Pitman, 1970, pp. 139-48.
18. White SJ, McLean AEM, Howland C. Anticonvulsant drugs and cancer. A cohort study in patients with severe epilepsy. Lancet 1979;2:458-61.
19. Klenerman P, Sander JWAS, Shorvon SD. Mortality in patients with epilepsy: a study of patients in long term residential care. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1993;56:149-52.
20. Nashef L, Fish DR, Sander JWAS, et al. Incidence of sudden unexpected death in an adult outpatient cohort with epilepsy at a tertiary referral centre. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1995;58:462-4.
21. Nashef L, Fish DR, Garner S, et al. Sudden death in epilepsy: a study of incidence in a young cohort with epilepsy and learning difficulty. Epilepsia 1995;36:1187-94.
22. Forsgren L, Edvinsson S-O, Nyström L, et al. Influence of epilepsy on mortality in mental retardation: an epidemiologic study. Epilepsia 1996;37:956-63.
23. Nilsson L, Tomson T, Farahmand B, et al. Cause-specific mortality in epilepsy: a cohort study of more than 9000 patients once hospitalized for epilepsy. Epilepsia 1997;38:1062-8.
24. Shackleton DP, Westendorp RGJ, Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité DGA, et al. Mortality in patients with epilepsy: 40 years of follow up in a Dutch cohort study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1999;66:636-40.
25. Commission on Classification and Terminology. International League Against Epilepsy. Proposal for revised classification of epilepsies and epileptic syndromes. Epilepsia 1989;30:389-99.
26. Brorson LO, Wranne L. Long-term prognosis in childhood epilepsy: survival and seizure prognosis. Epilepsia 1987;28:324-30.
27. Hauser WA, Kurland LT. The epidemiology of epilepsy in Rochester, Minnesota, 1935 through 1967. Epilepsia 1975;16:1-66.
28. Rafnsson V, Olafsson E, Hauser WA, et al. Cause-specific mortality in adults with unprovoked seizures. Neuroepidemiology 2001;20:232-6.
29. Iivanainen M, Lehtinen J. Causes of death in institutionalized epileptics. Epilepsia 1979;20:485-92.
30. Krohn W. Causes of death among epileptics. Epilepsia 1963;4:315-21.
31. Nashef L, Walker F, Allen P, et al. Apnoe and bradycardia during epileptic seizures: relation to sudden death in epilepsy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1996;60:297-300.
32. Lathers CM, Schraeder PL, Boggs JG. Sudden unexplained death and autonomic dysfunction. In: Engel J Jr., Pedely TA, eds. Epilepsy: a comprehensive textbook. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1997, pp. 1943-55.
33. Ficker DM, So EL, Shen WK, et al. Population-based study of the incidence of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy. Neurology 1998;51:1270-4.
34. Leestma JE, Walzak T, Hughes JR, et al. A prospective study of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Ann Neurol 1989;26:195-203.
35. Jick SS, Cole TB, Mesher RA, et al. Sudden unexpected death in young persons with primary epilepsy. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 1992;1:59-64.
36. Tennis P, Cole TB, Annegers JF, et al. Cohort study of incidence of sudden unexplained death in persons with seizure disorders treated with antiepileptic drugs in Saskatchewan, Canada. Epilepsia 1995;36:29-36.
37. Lip GYH, Brodie MJ. Sudden death in epilepsy: an avoidable outcome. J R Soc Med 1992;85:609-11.
38. Timmings PL. Sudden unexpected deaths in epilepsy: a local audit. Seizure 1993;2:287-90.
39. Leestma JE, Annegers JF, Brodie MJ, et al. Sudden unexplained death in epilepsy: observations from a large clinical development program. Epilepsia 1997;38:47-55.
40. Nilsson L, Farahmand B, Persson PG, et al. Risk factors for sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy - a case control study. Lancet 1999;353:888-93.
41. Walczak TS, Leppik IE, D'Amilio M, et al. Incidence and risk factors in sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: a prospective cohort study. Neurology 2001;56:519-25.
42. Nilsson L, Ahlbom A, Farahmand BY, et al. Mortality in a population-based cohort of epilepsy surgery patients. Epilepsia 2003;44:575-81.
43. Dasheiff RM. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: a series from an epilepsy surgery program and speculation on the relationship to sudden cardiac death. J Clin Neurophysiol 1991;8:216-22.
44. Sperling MR, Feldman H, Kinman J, et al. Seizure control and mortality in epilepsy. Ann Neurol 1999;46:45-50.
45. Strauss DJ, Day SM, Shavelle RM, et al. Remote symptomatic epilepsy. Does seizure severity increase mortality? Neurology 2003;60:395-9.
46. Massey EW, Schoenberg BS. Mortality from epilepsy. Neuroepidemiology 1985;4:65-70.
47. O'Callaghan FJK, Osmond C, Martyn CN. Trends in epilepsy mortality in England and Wales and the United States, 1950-1994. Am J Epidemiol 2000;151:182-9.
48. Britten N, Wadsworth MEJ, Fenwick PBC. Stigma in patients with early epilepsy: a national longitudinal study. J Epidemiol Community Health 1984;38:291-5.
49. Kurtz Z, Tookey P, Ross E. Epilepsy in young people: 23 year follow up of the British national child development study. BMJ 1998;316:339-42.
50. Loiseau J, Loiseau P, Guyot M, et al. Survey of seizure disorders in the French Southwest. I. Incidence of epileptic syndromes. Epilepsia 1990;31:391-6.
51. Hauser WA, Annegers JF, Kurland LT. Incidence of epilepsy and unprovoked seizures in Rochester, Minnesota: 1935-84. Epilepsia 1993;344:53-68.
52. Forsgren L, Bucht G, Eriksson S, et al. Incidence and clinical characterization of unprovoked seizures in adults - a prospective population-based study. Epilepsia 1996;37:224-9.
53. Olafsson E, Hauser WA, Ludvigsson P, et al. Incidence of epilepsy in rural Iceland. Epilepsia 1996;37:951-5.
54. Annegers JF, Hauser WA, Lee JR, et al. Secular trends and birth cohort effects in unprovoked seizures: Rochester, Minnesota 1935-1984. Epilepsia 1995;36:575-9.
55. Broderick JP, Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP, et al. Incidence rate of stroke in the eighties: the end of the decline in stroke? Stroke 1989;20:577-82.