Social outcomes of young adults with childhood-onset epilepsy: A case-sibling-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to compare long-term social outcomes in young adults with childhood-onset epilepsy (cases) with neurologically normal sibling controls.

Methods

Long-term social outcomes were assessed at the 15-year follow-up of the Connecticut Study of Epilepsy, a community-based prospective cohort study of children with newly diagnosed epilepsy. Young adults with childhood-onset epilepsy with complicated (abnormal neurologic exam findings, abnormal brain imaging with lesion referable to epilepsy, intellectual disability (ID; IQ < 60) or informative history of neurologic insults to which the occurrence of epilepsy might be attributed), and uncomplicated epilepsy presentations were compared to healthy sibling controls. Age, gender, and matched-pair adjusted generalized lin

SUBMITTER: Baca CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5429874 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature