Regional differences and secular trends in the incidence of epilepsy in Finland: A nationwide 23-year registry study

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1857-1867

  Sillanpää, Matti ^a   Lastunen, Sari ^a   Helenius, Hans ^a   Schmidt, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Epilepsy Research Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drug; Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Incidence of epilepsy; Regional changes; Secular trends

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SECULARISM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053576827     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03186.x     Document Type: Article

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