Prevalence and risk factors for active convulsive epilepsy in rural northeast South Africa

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 782-791

  Wagner, Ryan G ^a,b,c   Ngugi, Anthony K ^a,d,e   Twine, Rhian ^a   Bottomley, Christian ^f   Kamuyu, Gathoni ^d   Gómez Olivé, F Xavier ^b   Connor, Myles D ^b,g   Collinson, Mark A ^b,c   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,b,c   Tollman, Stephen ^a,b,c   Newton, Charles R ^a,b,d,f,h,i  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^e AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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

^g BORDERS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control; Epilepsy; Population based; Prevalence; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNORING; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; HEALTH SURVEY; NEWBORN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898046568     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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