Cardiovascular disease risk, awareness, and treatment in people with epilepsy

CONCLUSIONS: Participants with epilepsy had increased ASCVD risk, despite similar or better awareness, treatment, and control of individual risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension. Our results suggest that epilepsy is associated with numerous health behaviors leading to cardiovascular disease, though the causal pathway is complex as these variables (income, depression, diet, exercise, smoking) generally served as confounders rather than mediators.PMID:33690068 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.107878

Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 10, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Samuel W Terman Carole E Aubert Chloe E Hill Jeremy Skvarce James F Burke Scott Mintzer Source Type: research