Prevalence and clinical characteristics of active epilepsy in southern Han Chinese》.pdfVIP

Seizure 23 (2014) 636–640 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Seizure jou r nal h o mep age: w ww.els evier .co m/lo c ate/ys eiz Prevalence and clinical characteristics of active epilepsy in southern Han Chinese a b b c,** d a a Xiaorong Pi , Luo Zhou , Lei Cui , Aizhong Liu , Jie Zhang , Yan Ma , Bofu Liu , Chaoqun Cai e, Caiyun Zhu a, Tianbin Zhou a, Jia Chen a, Zhen Zhou a, Chunmei Wang c, a f f b,* Luoqing Li , Shichuo Li , Jianzhong Wu , Bo Xiao a Department of Neurology, Yueyang No. 1 People’s Hospital, Yueyang 414005, Hunan, China b Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410008, Hunan, China c School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410008, Hunan, China d Department of Neurology, Hunan Children Hospital, Changsha 410007, Hunan, China e Department of Neurology, Yuehua Hospital, Yueyang 414014, Hunan, China f Institute of Neurological Surgery, Xicheng District, Beijing 100037, China A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Purpose: To investigate the prevalence and clinical characteristics of active epilepsy in southern Han Received 14 January 2014 Chinese. Received in revised form 30 April 2014 Method: A door-to-door survey about epilepsy was conducted in communities i