Premature mortality in people with epilepsy in rural China: a prospective study

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 823-827

  Ding, Ding ^a   Wang, Wenzhi ^b   Wu, Jianzhong ^b   Ma, Guangyu ^c   Dai, Xiuying ^d   Yang, Bin ^e   Wang, Taiping ^f   Yuan, Chenglin ^g   Hong, Zhen ^a   de Boer, Hanneke M ^h   Prilipko, Leonid ⁱ   Sander, Josemir W ^j  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Universal Love Hospital   (China)

^d NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Jiaozuo People's Hospital   (China)

^f Zezhou County Hospital   (China)

^g CLINICAL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; AGE; AGED; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PHENOBARBITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOBARBITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33750596491     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(06)70528-2     Document Type: Article

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