Trends of Epilepsy-Related Mortality in South Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Epilepsy increases the risk of death in affected individuals of any age. We aimed to determine the mortality caused by epilepsy and its time trends in Korea.

Methods

We obtained population and cause of death data between 1993 and 2019 from Statistics Korea. We identified death caused by epilepsy or status epilepticus. We calculated the crude mortality rate (CMR), age-specific mortality rate, age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR, corresponding to epilepsy-related deaths per 100,000 persons in the general population), and the proportional mortality (PM, corresponding to the proportion of epilepsy-related deaths among all-cause deaths).

Results

In 2019, 471 deaths were caused by epilepsy (CMR=0.92), accounting for 0.16% of all deaths in that year.

SUBMITTER: Moon SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9982184 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature