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RESEARCH PAPERS ON EPILEPSY AND MORTALITY RATES
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1974.tb04941.x/abstract
Epilepsy and Mortality Rate and Cause of Death
- Janusz J. Zielihski
Article first published online: 5 NOV 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1974.tb04941.x
Issue
EpilepsiaVolume 15, Issue 2, pages 191--201, June 1974
JJ Zielinski performed one of the very few studies available. The average life span reduced by 20 years on average.
SummaryThe death of 218 persons known to have epilepsy in Warsaw was most often due to epilepsy, i.e., death in a convulsion or due to accident related to seizures. Brain tumor and Heart disease came next, followed by carcinoma, pneumonia, suicide, and other accidents. In 97 institutionalized patients death in status or with pneumonia or heart disease was most frequent. The mean mortality rate in Warsaw was twice as high for men as for women (10.6 and 5.4/100,000, respectively). The mean life span was 12.5 yr after onset of seizures, an average of 20 yr shorter than in the population. The mortality rate was 3.5 times that to be expected under the age of 50 yr, 1.9 times that expected over 50. Death certificates often failed to give epilepsy as primary or related cause of death. Study of deaths in persons with epilepsy are misleading prognostically since the severe cases are always recorded.
How to CiteZielihski, J. J. (1974), Epilepsy and Mortality Rate and Cause of Death. Epilepsia, 15: 191-201. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1974.tb04941.x
Author InformationEpidemiological Branch, Department of Neurology, Psychoneurological Research Institute, 02-957 Warsaw, Poland
- Issue published online: 5 NOV 2007
- Article first published online: 5 NOV 2007
- Received October 12, 1973
Epilepsy and Mortality Rate and Cause of Death
- Janusz J. Zielihski
Article first published online: 5 NOV 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1974.tb04941.x
Issue
EpilepsiaVolume 15, Issue 2, pages 191--201, June 1974
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1974.tb04941.x/abstract
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