Premature mortality in a Georgian cohort of people with epilepsy

Epilepsy-related clinical characteristics and mortality

“…20,54 In addition, 12 cohorts were based on hospital visits or specialist clinics, and thus might be affected by selection bias due to a higher proportion of patients with refractory epilepsy. 19,22,23,25,31,32,34,35,39,47,49,55 However, there was no difference in the magnitude of estimates between population-based studies and other studies (p 5 0.56; I 2 98.67%).…”

Overall and cause-specific premature mortality in epilepsy: A systematic review

“…The overall SMR for hospital-based studies ranged from 1.40 (1.10, 1.70) in the Georgian cohort[82] to 9.70(5.70, 15.30) in the Netherland (DSEC) cohort[78]. Forest plots (Supplement 5) showed an overall pooled SMR for LMIC as 3.71 (3.66, 3.76) which is higher than for HIC at 2.27 (2.24, 2.31).…”