Cause-specific mortality among patients with epilepsy: Results from a 30-year cohort study

Epilepsia

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 495-501

  Trinka, Eugen ^a,b,c   Bauer, Gerhard ^b   Oberaigner, Willi ^c,d   Ndayisaba, Jean Pierre ^b   Seppi, Klaus ^b   Granbichler, Claudia A ^a,b  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c University for Medical Informatics and Health Technology   (Austria)

^d TILAK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cause specific; Epilepsy; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYPTOGENIC EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SEIZURE FREE EPILEPSY; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84874679677     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12014     Document Type: Article

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