Citation

Picot MC, Jallon P. Epilepsies 2007; 19(3): 151-156.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007)

DOI

10.1684/epi.2007.0106

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

High mortality rates in patient with epilepsy are usually reported. This higher risk is often in relation with symptomatic epilepsies but not only. This risk of mortality is also increased in children as in adults at the beginning of the disease. This paper is a short review of papers concerning the evaluation of standardized mortality ratio in some cohort studies. Some causes and situations are also reported such as suicide and the impact of surgery. SUDEP is analysed in another paper of this review.

Language: fr

Keywords

human; Epidemiology; suicide; Suicide; Mortality; Epilepsy; Surgery; incidence; cause of death; mortality; hospitalization; epilepsy; article; symptomatology; high risk population; neurosurgery; cohort analysis; standardization; observational study; idiopathic disease