Clinical characteristics of epilepsy in resource-limited communities in Punjab, Northwest India.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe clinical characteristics of a community-based epilepsy cohort from resource-limited communities in Punjab, Northwest India.

Methods

The cohort was gathered following a two-stage screening survey. We cross-sectionally examined and followed up the cohort for one year. A panel of neurologists assigned seizure types, syndromes, and putative etiologies and categorized drug responsiveness.

Results

The cohort of 240 included 161 (67.1%) men, 109 (45.4%) illiterates and 149 (62.1%) unemployed. Current age was >18 years in 155 (64.6%) but age at epilepsy onset was <18 years in 173 (72.1%). Epilepsies due to structural and metabolic causes were diagnosed in 99 (41.3%), but syndromic assignments were not possible in 97 (40.4%). After one year, drug-resista

SUBMITTER: Singh G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733663 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature