title: Mortality from epilepsy: Brazil (capitals), 1980-2007.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide data about age, gender, time and space variation by means of mortality statistics from epilepsy in Brazil.
  
  
  METHODS
  It was used demographic and mortality data obtained from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, regarding Brazil (capitals) over the calendar years 1980-2007. For the description of the data it was used Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheet, and figuring of trends by linear regression, GraphPad Prism 5.0.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There is a tendency to elderly mortality, and male mortality in almost age group, although regarding the relative frequency rates by age, 20-39 age strata is more representative. The mortality at home is proportionally predominant at 20-29 years of age, 47.52%. Adjusted death rates/100,000, 2007, do not show clear regional predominance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We can infer that various deaths coded as epilepsy, may be due to an acute symptomatic seizures. Sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP) may be misdiagnosed and probably more represented at the group with more deaths at home.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. mmotagomes@acd.ufrj.br
authors.forename: Marleide da Mota
authors.initials: Mda M
authors.lastname: Gomes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends; D002947:Cities / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends