Socioeconomic variation in incidence of epilepsy: prospective community based study in south east England

Practice

Patients diagnosed with epilepsy

Person years of follow up of registered population

Centile of Carstairs deprivation score

0-14 years

15-64 years

³ 65 years

0-14 years

15-64 years

³ 65 years

5th

50th

95th

London

1

0

4

2

1598

7568

1617

!3.08

0.88

4.64

2

5

4

3

2672

10 778

1785

!2.93

0.89

3.25

3

5

8

2

2526

12 114

1571

!1.00

2.05

6.96

4

2

0

1

612

4818

581

!1.12

2.19

7.73

5

2

1

0

1200

4700

942

!0.09

3.31

6.36

6

11

5

1

2429

12 878

1823

!0.52

2.74

5.11

7

8

6

4

1812

10 761

2210

!1.73

1.63

6.67

Outside London

8

5

7

2

3684

13 016

3066

!3.54

!2.35

0.62

9

0

8

2

1180

25 750

17192

!4.39

!3.22

!1.28

10

3

2

3

3674

14 040

2690

!3.98

!3.07

0.31

11

2

5

2

2866

14 818

3306

!4.28

!2.46

0.78

12

5

1

2

2646

11 162

2828

!4.36

!3.66

!1.60

13

0

5

1

3558

11 902

3138

!4.57

!3.68

1.83

14

0

2

0

2466

8520

1752

!2.19

1.85

5.33

15

1

1

0

1808

6196

1420

!4.33

!2.53

1.06

16

4

4

0

3596

13 802

2684

!4.38

!2.87

0.81

17

1

6

2

4636

14 216

2860

!4.33

!2.82

0.95

18

3

3

2

3860

18 268

4468

!4.61

!4.10

!2.16

19

3

8

7

4138

14 986

3260

!4.64

!2.91

!0.49

20

5

8

1

5656

19 282

3896

!4.48

!2.38

0.86