Prevalence of epilepsy in rural Kansas

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 792-801

  Ablah, Elizabeth ^a   Hesdorffer, Dale C ^b   Liu, Yi ^b   Paschal, Angelia M ^c   Hawley, Suzanne ^d   Thurman, David ^e   Hauser, W Allen ^b   Goldman, Harold ^f   Jain, Devendra ^f   Liow, Kore ^f   Shah, Subhash ^f   Lindholm, Dwight ^f   Gometz, Modesto ^f   Dixit, Manish ^f   Osorio, Ivan ^f   King, Jeanne ^f   Sadler, Toni ^f   Chaves, Enrique ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WICHITA   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^d WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Department of Neurology Emory University ^*

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Epilepsy; Prevalence; Rural

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KANSAS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898036499     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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