Life expectancy in people with newly diagnosed epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2427-2432

  Gaitatzis, Athanasios ^a,b   Johnson, Anthony L ^c   Chadwick, David W ^d   Shorvon, Simon D ^a   Sander, Josemir W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Life expectancy; Mortality; Survival model

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 8144228565     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh267     Document Type: Article

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