Cause-specific mortality in adult epilepsy patients from Tyrol, Austria: Hospital-based study

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 262, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 126-133

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

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b TILAK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cause specific SMR; Causes of death; Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EPILEPSY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SUICIDE; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926661447     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7536-z     Document Type: Article

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