To print: Select File and then Print from your browser's menu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Epilepsy Increasing Among Elderly, Falling In Children URL: http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/D525A.htm Doctor's Guide December 18, 1998
LONDON, ENGLAND -- Dec. 18, 1998 -- A United Kingdom study in this week's issue of The Lancet shows that epilepsy is increasing among elderly people and falling in children. It also shows that women with epilepsy have reduced fertility rates. Dr. Henrietta Wallace and colleagues from London used a database that holds anonymous medical records of 3.6 million patients in England and Wales to find out the rates of treated epilepsy in 2,052,922 people. Their most important finding is the increased incidence and prevalence of epilepsy in the older age-groups and the reduced incidence in children. Previous U.K. studies reported epilepsy rates of 63, 52 and 48 per 100 000 people. In this study, Wallace and colleagues report a rate of 80.8 (which refers only to people receiving treatment for epilepsy). The investigators also found that fertility rates among women in the general population were 33 percent higher than among women with epilepsy. The lowest fertility rates were among women aged 25 to 39 years. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 1999 P\S\L Consulting Group Inc. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of P\S\L content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of P\S\L. P\S\L shall not be liable for any errors, omissions or delays in this content or any other content on its sites, newsletters or other publications, nor for any decisions or actions taken in reliance on such content. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This news story was printed from *Doctor's Guide to the Internet* located at http://www.docguide.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to News Story Page This site is maintained by webmaster@pslgroup.com Please contact us with any comments, problems or bugs. All contents Copyright (c) 1998 P\S\L Consulting Group Inc. All rights reserved.