@article{ref1,
title="Incidence of five common fracture types in an institutional epileptic population",
journal="Injury",
year="1996",
author="Desai, KB and Ribbans, W. J. and Taylor, G. J.",
volume="27",
number="2",
pages="97-100",
abstract="We have reviewed 4521 patient-years and analysed 185,066 seizures to calculate the incidence of five common fractures in an epileptic population. Only 25.0 per cent of these fractures were known to have occurred during a seizure. When age and sex matched against a 'normal population', there was an increased incidence of femoral neck fractures (5.2 x), inter-trochanteric fractures (9.9 x), ankle fractures (9.9 x) and proximal humerus fractures (4.2 x). Surprisingly, there was no increased incidence of wrist fractures. Overall, there was a 4.3 x increased risk for all fractures and 3.2 x increased risk of fractures not related to fits. There was no evidence for the first fracture occurring at a younger age in this population. The possible causes of this greatly increased risk are discussed.",
language="",
issn="0020-1383",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}