Mortality in Childhood-Onset Epilepsy
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Mortality in childhood-onset epilepsy.
OBJECTIVES To evaluate mortality in children with newly diagnosed epilepsy, to determine the risk of death, and to identify predictors of death from the point of diagnosis. DESIGN Prospective community-based cohort of 613 children with newly diagnosed epilepsy. The outcome measure was death. Chi2 Tests were used for bivariate analyses and the Cox proportional hazards model for multivariable a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1072-4710
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.158.12.1147