A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Resumo: | OBJECTIVE: To carry out a prevalence study about epileptic seizures and epilepsy in an urban low-income population. METHOD: Prevalence study in a two-phase model: screening and diagnosis confirmation. It was applied a structured questionnaire in 982 people all effectively resident on March 1rst 2000 based on a population census previously carried out by the Nurse Faculty. One neurologist interviewed all the suspected cases. RESULTS: It was detected 176 suspected cases of epileptic seizures: 156 with non-epileptic events, and 20 with epileptic seizures. The lifetime point prevalence was of 16.3 cases per 1000 inhabitants, and of active epilepsy, 5.1 / 1000. If we consider false negative diagnosis from the screening procedures, the lifetime point-prevalence rates until 20.8/1000. CONCLUSION: The prevalence data of epilepsy shows less impressive than in other Latin-American studies and even some Brazilian, but similar to other Brazilian studies. This suggests geographical diversity and/or methodological differences among studies. Anyway, probably the epilepsy prevalence in Rio de Janeiro is not so high as that found in the Latin countries rural areas. |
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A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazilepilepsyprevalencecommunity studyOBJECTIVE: To carry out a prevalence study about epileptic seizures and epilepsy in an urban low-income population. METHOD: Prevalence study in a two-phase model: screening and diagnosis confirmation. It was applied a structured questionnaire in 982 people all effectively resident on March 1rst 2000 based on a population census previously carried out by the Nurse Faculty. One neurologist interviewed all the suspected cases. RESULTS: It was detected 176 suspected cases of epileptic seizures: 156 with non-epileptic events, and 20 with epileptic seizures. The lifetime point prevalence was of 16.3 cases per 1000 inhabitants, and of active epilepsy, 5.1 / 1000. If we consider false negative diagnosis from the screening procedures, the lifetime point-prevalence rates until 20.8/1000. CONCLUSION: The prevalence data of epilepsy shows less impressive than in other Latin-American studies and even some Brazilian, but similar to other Brazilian studies. This suggests geographical diversity and/or methodological differences among studies. Anyway, probably the epilepsy prevalence in Rio de Janeiro is not so high as that found in the Latin countries rural areas.Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO2002-09-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2002000500004Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria v.60 n.3B 2002reponame:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (Online)instname:Academia Brasileira de Neurologiainstacron:ABNEURO10.1590/S0004-282X2002000500004info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessGomes,Marleide da MotaZeitoune,Regina GolnnerKropf,Leandro Albuquerque LemgruberBeeck,Erica da Silva vaneng2002-10-01T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S0004-282X2002000500004Revistahttp://www.scielo.br/anphttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||revista.arquivos@abneuro.org1678-42270004-282Xopendoar:2002-10-01T00:00Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (Online) - Academia Brasileira de Neurologiafalse |
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A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gomes,Marleide da Mota epilepsy prevalence community study |
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A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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A house-to-house survey of epileptic seizures in an urban community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Gomes,Marleide da Mota |
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Gomes,Marleide da Mota Zeitoune,Regina Golnner Kropf,Leandro Albuquerque Lemgruber Beeck,Erica da Silva van |
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Zeitoune,Regina Golnner Kropf,Leandro Albuquerque Lemgruber Beeck,Erica da Silva van |
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Gomes,Marleide da Mota Zeitoune,Regina Golnner Kropf,Leandro Albuquerque Lemgruber Beeck,Erica da Silva van |
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epilepsy prevalence community study |
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epilepsy prevalence community study |
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OBJECTIVE: To carry out a prevalence study about epileptic seizures and epilepsy in an urban low-income population. METHOD: Prevalence study in a two-phase model: screening and diagnosis confirmation. It was applied a structured questionnaire in 982 people all effectively resident on March 1rst 2000 based on a population census previously carried out by the Nurse Faculty. One neurologist interviewed all the suspected cases. RESULTS: It was detected 176 suspected cases of epileptic seizures: 156 with non-epileptic events, and 20 with epileptic seizures. The lifetime point prevalence was of 16.3 cases per 1000 inhabitants, and of active epilepsy, 5.1 / 1000. If we consider false negative diagnosis from the screening procedures, the lifetime point-prevalence rates until 20.8/1000. CONCLUSION: The prevalence data of epilepsy shows less impressive than in other Latin-American studies and even some Brazilian, but similar to other Brazilian studies. This suggests geographical diversity and/or methodological differences among studies. Anyway, probably the epilepsy prevalence in Rio de Janeiro is not so high as that found in the Latin countries rural areas. |
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