Medical
Comorbidity and Childhood Epilepsy: A Nationwide Registry Study
Author(s)
Kari Modalsli Aaberg, MD, Inger Johanne Bakken, PhD, Morten I. Lossius, MD, PhD, Camilla Lund Søraas, MD, PhD, Siri Eldevik Håberg, MD, PhD, Camilla Stoltenberg, MD, PhD, Pål Surén, MD, PhD, Richard Chin, MD, PhDAbstract
Children with epilepsy are at increased risk of other disorders and abstract difficulties, preceding, cooccurring with, or after the diagnosis of epilepsy. Risk estimates vary, few studies are population-based, and few provide comprehensive assessments of comorbidities. We used nationwide registry data to describe frequencies of medical, neurologic, developmental, and psychiatric conditions occurring before and after children are diagnosed with childhood epilepsy.
