Premature mortality in active convulsive epilepsy in rural Kenya: Causes and associated factors

Neurology

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 582-589

  Ngugi, Anthony K ^a,b,c,d   Bottomley, Christian ^b   Fegan, Gregory ^a,e   Chengo, Eddie ^a   Odhiambo, Rachael ^a   Bauni, Evasius ^a,c   Neville, Brian ^f   Kleinschmidt, Immo ^b   Sander, Josemir W ^g,h,i   Newton, Charles R ^a,b,c,j  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^h EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ACTIVE CONVULSIVE EPILEPSY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895765007     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000123     Document Type: Article

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