Epilepsy strikes 1 in 26 people in their lives

For a condition much like Epilepsy may you surprised to find out that estimates of a person, the risk of it have been not so great.

Now Columbia University researchers and universities two decades worth of data from Rochester, Minnesota, have reduced estimates the home base of the Mayo Clinic, come up with better. Came to the conclusion that 1 in 26 people, or about 3.85 percent, epilepsy during your life will develop.

Men are more likely to get the seizure disorder than women. Previous work has shown, the condition is fairly common in infants (beat about 100 per 100,000 people) then select, as children grow up. For adults, the risk really begins to climb after the age of 50.

  The results were published online by the journal Neurology. Bottom line: approximately 12 million Americans alive today epilepsy eventually develop. This is the type of information that could help health to get a bead on the future planners.

An accompanying editorial praises the findings while also some dependency Diagnostics criticize the work more than 30 years ago made. The data were collected between 1960 and 1979. Neurology has since changed some, and the people quite a bit more life.

Like the explorers that though, would be the fact that the lifetime have increased quite dramatically, means since 1970 the probability that a person would develop epilepsy even greater than 1 in 26. And nothing about the age of the data would undermine the basic conclusions used by methods that come for other neurological disorders, write.

"Our results highlight the need for more research with epilepsy monitoring data, especially given the ageing population in the United States," said lead author of the study and epidemiologist Dale C. Hesdorffer in a statement.

The National Institute of neurological disorders and stroke and the national institutes of health funding the work.

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