Estimation of the burden of active and life-time epilepsy: A meta-analytic approach

By A. Ngugi, C. Bottomley, I. Kleinschmidt, Josemir W Sander, C. Newton. Epilepsia, 2010

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Purpose:  To estimate the burden of lifetime epilepsy (LTE) and active epilepsy (AE) and examine the influence of study characteristics on prevalence estimates.

Subfields: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Epilepsy and psychiatric comorbidity: A nationally representative population‐based study (2012, background): “Epilepsy is the most common serious neurologic disorder, and it affects >50 million people worldwide (World Health Organization 2005; Ngugi et al., 2010).”
• Standards for epidemiologic studies and surveillance of epilepsy (2011, background): “In low and middle income countries, estimates of the corresponding rates are generally higher (Hauser, 1995; Kotsopoulos et al., 2002; Sander, 2003; Burneo et al., 2005b; Preux & Druet-Cabanac, 2005; Ngugi et al., 2010).”