Antiseizure Medications and Cardiovascular Events in Older People With Epilepsy in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging JAMA Neurology Research September 30, 2024 This cohort study investigates the association between risk of cardiovascular events (CVEs) and use of enzyme-inducing antiseizure medicat...
Log In Sign Up Subjects Health & Medicine Why do older people tend to have seizures after a stroke?Question:Why do older people tend to have seizures after a stroke?Stroke:Stroke is a serious medical disorder characterized by the inefficient and lack of blood flow to the brain leading...
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Unprovoked seizures develop in 10%-22% of people with Alzheimer disease, a disorder that affects more than 5 million Americans.[1]Consequently, as many as 1 million people with Alzheimer disease in the United States may develop seizures. The likelihood of seizures increases in familial and early...
By 2050, elderly people (older than 60years) will exceed 30% of the total world population. It is now recognized that this population has a high incidence of seizures and epilepsy. Possible reasons include enhanced seizure predisposition, medical comorbidities, structural changes of the brain ...
This is evidenced in part by a 2017 study published in the journalNaturein which investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston evaluated the brain function of two older women who had Alzheimer's, neither of whom had a history of seizures.9 Both were selected because they had ...
Further studies in this area are still needed to establish optimal treatment strategies. As the proportion of older people in the population grows, as well as the prevalence and incidence of stroke, the management of seizures and epilepsy in this population will become increasingly important. 展开 ...
This is the cause of epilepsy in older people. Older people often have to use diuretics and tranquilizers. Although these drugs are not the main cause of the disease, many studies have shown that people who use them have a higher incidence of disease than others. Genetics And Mutations Muc...
Neonatal seizures may be strikingly different from the clinical and electrical seizures of older children and adults. In addition, findings from basic science investigations suggest that immature animals are more likely to experience seizures in response to injury than more mature animals, although the ...
Epidemiology In population studies, stroke is the most commonly identified cause of epilepsy in adult populations older than 35 years.1 In the elderly, stroke accounts for more than half of the newly diagnosed cases of epilepsy in which a cause is determined, ahead of degenerative disorders, brai...