[Epilepsy, the disease never spoken about].
According to the WHO, epilepsy is the most frequent neurological disease in the world. Epilepsy affects 400,000 Spaniards and calculations indicate that worldwide some 50 million people suffer epilepsy, without any distinctions made among social classes, sex, race or geographical locations. 20,000 new cases are diagnosed in Spain annually. Three out of every four patients respond to pharmaceutical treatment while 15% benefit from brain surgery, but 10% of those patients who suffer epilepsy are pharmaceutical-resistant, which means that their families must keep an eye on them 24 hours per day.
Centro de Salud de Valderrobles, Teruel.
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D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans