This epidemiological study puts out interesting findings. According to the study (door to door stratified random sampling). Prevalence of active epilepsy (< or = 19 years of age) is in the range of 0.58-0.83 % which is well below average epilepsy prevalence 1% (see Satishchandra et al). However febrile seizures prevalence was found to be 0.9-1.2%. 9.5% of febrile seizures developed epilepsy later on which is higher than western data. One third of cerebral palsy patients had epilepsy.
This paper re-emphasizes our need to concentrate on epilepsy, diagnosis and treatment strategies.
Indian J Pediatr. 2008 Dec 4. [Epub ahead of print]
Neurological disorders in children and adolescents - An epidemiological study
Banerjee TK, Hazra A, Biswas A, Ray J, Roy T, Raut DK, Chaudhuri A, Das SK.
National Neurosciences Centre, Kolkata, India
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