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In the general population, there is a strong association between having a seizure disorder and excess mortality. Waddy and colleagues examined epilepsy and seizures in a national end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) database. They found that having a diagnosis of epilepsy or seizures was 9-fold and 2-fold higher in patients with ESKD than in the general population. After adjusting for potential confounding variables, patients with ESKD and epilepsy or seizures were found to have an 11% and 14% increase in death compared with those patients with ESKD without either diagnosis.
Source: Kidney International - Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: In This Issue Source Type: research