Epilepsy, diabetes mellitus and accidental injury at work.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To assess the contribution of epilepsy and diabetes to occupational injury.

Methods

The Clinical Practice Research Datalink logs primary care data for 6% of the British population, coding all consultations and treatments. Using this, we conducted a population-based case-control study, identifying patients aged 16-64 years, who had consulted over two decades for workplace injury, plus matched controls. By conditional logistic regression, we assessed risks for diabetes and epilepsy overall, several diabetic complications and indices of poor control, occurrence of status epilepticus and treatment with hypoglycaemic and anti-epileptic agents.

Results

We identified 1348 injury cases and 6652 matched controls. A total of 160 subjects (2%) had previous epilepsy, includi

SUBMITTER: Palmer KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4431610 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature