A community-based prospective incidence study of epileptic seizures in children.
During a 20-month period, an attempt was made to find all children with unprovoked non-febrile seizures. The first attendance and incidence rates were 95 and 89/100,000, respectively, in the age group 0-15 years. These figures are lower than those found 10 years earlier in the same area. The highest incidence was during the first year of life and there was a higher proportion of girls (male:female ratio 1:1.4). Generalized seizures dominated in the first year of life. The incidence of benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes was 10.7/100,000 and was the most common epilepsy syndrome found. The incidence of partial seizures increased with age up to the age of 10 years. One in 10 children had a history of febrile convulsions.
Sidenvall
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Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden.
Forsgren
L
L
Blomquist
H K
HK
Heijbel
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J
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology