INCIDENCE OF EPILEPSY IN CHILDREN - FOLLOW-UP-STUDY 3 YEARS AFTER 1ST SEIZURE
INCIDENCE OF EPILEPSY IN CHILDREN - FOLLOW-UP-STUDY 3 YEARS AFTER 1ST SEIZURE
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1528-1157.1978.tb04500.x
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
BERGFORS, PG
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作者:
BLOM, S;HEIJBEL, J;BERGFORS, PG
A prospective epidemiological study of the incidence of epilepsy was performed in a Swedish county. During the incidence period 52,252 children aged 0-15 yr were studied. Seventy-four children who had their 1st seizure during Feb. 1. 1973 to Jan. 31, 1974 were reexamined 3 yr later. Forty-three children were classified as having epilepsy at the followup, which gave an incidence of 82/100,000. The most frequent types of epilepsy found were: primary generalized epilepsy, 12/43 (27.9%); partial epilepsies, 11/43 (25.6%); and benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal discharges, 11/43 (25.6%). The prognostic significance of the initial EEG findings in the group with primary generalized epilepsy was low. No differences were found between the number of children who had further seizures and the number of children who had only 1 seizure. On the basis of clinical and EEG findings some groups tended to run a greater risk of developing recurrent seizures than others. These risk groups were children with perinatal complications or cerebral malformations and psychomotor retardation, children with partial seizures, children with absences and 3/s spike-and-wave discharges and children with benign epilepsy of childhood.