Excess health care use is significantly and persistently reduced following diagnosis of late‐onset epilepsy
Health care use demonstrates an acute on chronic rise over the 4 years before diagnosis of LOE. To what extent the partial reversal of the acute pre-diagnosis rise, and the mediators of the accelerated increase compared to controls are attributed to epilepsy, comorbid and bidirectional disease states, or a combination of both warrants further exploration.
Authors
- Jordan D. T. Engbers
- Samuel Wiebe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1061-9099)
- Colin B. Josephson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7052-1651)
- Spiros Denaxas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9612-7791)
- Brendan Cord Lethebe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5867-6132)
- Tolulope T. Sajobi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-5552)
- Arturo González-Izquierdo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0984-5830)
- Marta Berglund (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3015-3190)
Institutions
- University of Calgary (CA)
- The Alan Turing Institute (GB)
- Health Data Research UK (GB)
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute (CA)
- University College London (GB)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Epilepsia
- Published
- 2024-09-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.18105
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.39
Funders
- Medical Research Council