title: Epilepsy kills.
abstract: People with epilepsy are more likely to die prematurely, and the most common epilepsy-related category of death is sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Thus, the purpose of this article was to alert the scientific community about SUDEP.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. scorza.nexp@epm.br
authors.forename: Fulvio Alexandre
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Scorza
mesh_terms: D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors