Sudden cardiac death is associated both with epilepsy and with use of antiepileptic medications
Sudden cardiac death is associated both with epilepsy and with use of antiepileptic medications
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DOI:
10.1136/heartjnl-2014-305664
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发表时间:
2015-01-01
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5.7
通讯作者:
Tan, Hanno L.
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作者:
Bardai, Abdennasser;Blom, Marieke T.;Tan, Hanno L.
Objective Epilepsy is associated with increased risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD). We aimed to establish, in a community based study, whether this association is mediated by epilepsy per se, use of antiepileptic medications (AEMs), or both.Methods We studied SCD cases and age/sex matched controls in a case-control study in a large scale general practitioners' research database (n=478 661 patients). SCD risk for symptomatic epilepsy (seizure