Epilepsy is linked to social deprivation

People who are socially and economically disadvantaged are more likely to develop epilepsy than those who are not. Heaney and colleagues (p 1013) identified all new cases of epilepsy in 20 general practices and found the age and sex adjusted incidence in the most deprived fifth of the study population was 2.3 times that in the least deprived fifth. The results may partly reflect differences in the incidence within and outside London.


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Socioeconomic variation in incidence of epilepsy: prospective community based study in south east England
Dominic C Heaney, Bridget K MacDonald, Alex Everitt, Simon Stevenson, Giovanni S Leonardi, Paul Wilkinson, and Josemir W Sander
BMJ 2002 325: 1013-1016. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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