Clinical characteristics of epilepsy in resource‐limited communities in Punjab, Northwest India

Clinical characteristics of epilepsy in resource‐limited communities in Punjab, Northwest India

Objectives To describe clinical characteristics of a community‐based epilepsy cohort from resource‐limited communities in Punjab, Northwest India. Methods The cohort was gathered following a two‐stage screening survey. We cross‐sectionally examined and followed up the cohort for one year. A panel of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Epilepsia open 2020-12, Vol.5 (4), p.582-595
Hauptverfasser: Singh, Gagandeep, Singhal, Sachi, Sharma, Suman, Paul, Birinder S., Bansal, Namita, Chaudhary, Anurag, Sharma, Sarit, Bansal, Rajnder K., Goraya, Jatinder S., Setia, Raj K., Sander, Josemir W.
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Sprache:eng
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classification
Convulsions & seizures
Drug resistance
Epilepsy
epileptic syndromes
etiology
Family income
Full‐length Original Research
Illiteracy
Infections
perinatal accidents
prevention
Risk factors
Sociodemographics
Traumatic brain injury
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Zusammenfassung:Objectives To describe clinical characteristics of a community‐based epilepsy cohort from resource‐limited communities in Punjab, Northwest India. Methods The cohort was gathered following a two‐stage screening survey. We cross‐sectionally examined and followed up the cohort for one year. A panel of neurologists assigned seizure types, syndromes, and putative etiologies and categorized drug responsiveness. Results The cohort of 240 included 161 (67.1%) men, 109 (45.4%) illiterates and 149 (62.1%) unemployed. Current age was >18 years in 155 (64.6%) but age at epilepsy onset was
ISSN:2470-9239
2470-9239
DOI:10.1002/epi4.12439