The prevalence of epilepsy is currently thought to be 490000 (children and adults in the UK) but the Joint Epilepsy Council believes that 590000 people carry the diagnosis. It is not known whether there are important inequalities in prevalence; nor whether specialist centres are in the areas of...
19 Services for epilepsy in the UK are highly variable and few are orientated towards the needs of individuals with ID.20 Psychiatrists in specialist ID services often lack experience of diagnosing and managing epilepsy. An epidemiological perspective on the extent of epilepsy in adults with ID and...
Epilepsy in autism is associated with intellectual disability and gender: evidence from a meta-analysis. Biol Psychiatry. 2008;64(7):577–82. Article PubMed Google Scholar Aathira R, Gulati S, Tripathi M, Shukla G, Chakrabarty B, Sapra S, Dang N, Gupta A, Kabra M, Pandey RM. ...
Background Taenia solium is a zoonotic helminth with the potential to cause life threatening epilepsy in people through the aberrant larval infection of the brain called Neurocysticercosis (NCC). The pig is the intermediate host for T. solium where the larval form, cysticercus cellulosae, normally...
Anemia is a globally widespread condition in women and is associated with reduced economic productivity and increased mortality worldwide. Here we map annual 2000–2018 geospatial estimates of anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age (15–49 years)
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Joint Epilepsy Council, September 2011 2 Prevalence by different sections of the community in the UK See Appendix 1 for a chart of prevalence by age group. Children aged 4 years and under with epilepsy, the total number of is approximately 7,600 or 1 in 509. Children aged 16 years and ...
To assess the prevalence of nonadherence to antihypertensive medications among adults attending Primary Healthcare Clinics (PHCs) in Al-Hasa Region. This cross-sectional study included participants from a variety of clinics in the region and each of them had been interviewed to complete the questionna...
School-age Effect on Prevalence of Autism/ASD We use the term school-age effect to denote the higher prev- alence rates among school-age children compared with preschool-age children. As Table 1 shows, the study conduct- ed by Green et al. (2004) in the UK presents that the preva- ...
Ethnic differences in Singapore’s dementia prevalence: the Stroke, Parkinson’s Disease, Epilepsy, and Dementia in Singapore study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008;56(11):2061-2068. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01992.x PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 60. Smith K, Flicker L, Lauten...