Incidence and predictors of seizures in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 867-872

  Amatniek, Joan C ^a   Hauser, W Allen ^a   DelCastillo Castaneda, Carrie ^b   Jacobs, Diane M ^a,b   Marder, Karen ^a,b   Bell, Karen ^a,b   Albert, Marilyn ^d   Brandt, Joseph ^c   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cumulative incidence; Predictors; Prospective cohort; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745258377     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00554.x     Document Type: Article

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