Individuals who develop drug-resistant epilepsy within a year after initial diagnosis have higher burden of mental and physical diseases one-year prior to epilepsy diagnosis as compared to those whose seizures were controlled during the same interval

CONCLUSION: Physical and psychiatric diagnoses are common one year prior to first diagnosis of epilepsy in administrative claims data. Compared to patients without DRE, those who develop DRE within one-year post initial diagnosis demonstrated a higher burden of disease.PMID:34425326 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108243

Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - August 23, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Rachel E Teneralli M Soledad Cepeda David M Kern Gerald P Novak Source Type: research