Epidemiology and long-term Turku outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy and mortality. Personal experiences. Part I *

Introduction. Epidemiological studies on epilepsy were long based, with few exceptions, on hospital and institution patients with a subsequent bias toward more difficult cases and the reported prevalence and incidence rates were often obviously too low. Few data are available on the temporal changes...

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Main Author: Sillanpää Matti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Exeley Inc. 2015-12-01
Series:Journal of Epileptology
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spelling doaj-f4a6a8eea3d541e28af3952298b922332020-11-24T21:47:22ZengExeley Inc.Journal of Epileptology2300-01472015-12-0123214915710.1515/joepi-2015-0036joepi-2015-0036Epidemiology and long-term Turku outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy and mortality. Personal experiences. Part I *Sillanpää Matti0Departments of Child Neurology and Public Health, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandIntroduction. Epidemiological studies on epilepsy were long based, with few exceptions, on hospital and institution patients with a subsequent bias toward more difficult cases and the reported prevalence and incidence rates were often obviously too low. Few data are available on the temporal changes in the incidence of epilepsy.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/joepi.2015.23.issue-2/joepi-2015-0036/joepi-2015-0036.xml?format=INTchildhood-onset epilepsyincidence of childhood epilepsymortality in epilepsypopulation-based studyprevalence of childhood epilepsytemporal changes in the incidence
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Epidemiology and long-term Turku outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy and mortality. Personal experiences. Part I *
Journal of Epileptology
childhood-onset epilepsy
incidence of childhood epilepsy
mortality in epilepsy
population-based study
prevalence of childhood epilepsy
temporal changes in the incidence
author_facet Sillanpää Matti
author_sort Sillanpää Matti
title Epidemiology and long-term Turku outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy and mortality. Personal experiences. Part I *
title_short Epidemiology and long-term Turku outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy and mortality. Personal experiences. Part I *
title_full Epidemiology and long-term Turku outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy and mortality. Personal experiences. Part I *
title_fullStr Epidemiology and long-term Turku outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy and mortality. Personal experiences. Part I *
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiology and long-term Turku outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy and mortality. Personal experiences. Part I *
title_sort epidemiology and long-term turku outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy and mortality. personal experiences. part i *
publisher Exeley Inc.
series Journal of Epileptology
issn 2300-0147
publishDate 2015-12-01
description Introduction. Epidemiological studies on epilepsy were long based, with few exceptions, on hospital and institution patients with a subsequent bias toward more difficult cases and the reported prevalence and incidence rates were often obviously too low. Few data are available on the temporal changes in the incidence of epilepsy.
topic childhood-onset epilepsy
incidence of childhood epilepsy
mortality in epilepsy
population-based study
prevalence of childhood epilepsy
temporal changes in the incidence
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