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...
Epilepsy; Gluten sensitivity Summary: Purpose: The relation between celiac disease and epilepsy is uncertain. Previous studies have suggested an association, whereas others have not. Methods: We ascertained the prevalence of active epilepsy in a cohort of 801 celiac patients by patient interviews 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. ...
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)
For screening BPI disorder, we also used the Finnish National Prescription Register of the National Insurance Institution. All subjects not selected by any other screen who had used lithium or mood-stabilizing anticonvulsants from 1996 through 2002, but without a diagnosis of epilepsy or other somati...
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...
companies [7]. BZDs are indicated in various medical conditions such as anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, epilepsy, muscle spasms and pre-surgical stress [1]. However, due to their well-known adverse effects, regulation of BZD use has been considered important in numerous countries [2,3,4]....
We included a range of common long COVID-19 symptoms in our survey, such as recurrent fever, fatigue, dizziness, cough, sputum production, sore throat, dyspnoea, chest pain, palpitations, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, constipation, headache, epilepsy, memory ...
However, mental disorders in need of treatment occur in about half of these cases. In children with primary neurological brain dysfunctions, the prevalence of psychiatric disorders increases with the degree of the brain damage or the metabolic alteration. So, children with epilepsy suffer five times...
Epilepsy Vasculitis Dilatative cardiomyopathy Hypo/hyperthyroidism IgA: Immunoglobulin A; IDDM: Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Possible triggers Genetic predisposition association (HLA, MYO9B), exogenous trigger (gluten), pro-autoimmune genetic background, viral infections, tissue damage, early terminat...