Estimating the incidence of first unprovoked seizure and newly diagnosed epilepsy in the low-income urban community of Northern Manhattan, New York City

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1431-1439

  Benn, Emma K T ^a   Hauser, W Allen ^a,b,c   Shih, Tina ^d   Leary, Linda ^e   Bagiella, Emilia ^b   Dayan, Peter ^f   Green, Robert ^f   Andrews, Howard ^b   Thurman, David J ^g   Hesdorffer, Dale C ^a,b  

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

^b University of California ^*  (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UCB PHARMA   (Belgium)

^f P and S Unit 16 ^*  (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Incidence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; EPILEPSY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEIZURE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEIZURES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 48149106932     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01564.x     Document Type: Article

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