1 40 1 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month Backlog URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00533.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00533.x</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Influence of epilepsy on mortality in mental retardation: an epidemiologic study Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Epilepsia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1996 Subject The topic of the resource Cohort Studies; Adult; Prevalence; Follow-Up Studies; Comorbidity; Epilepsy; Severity of Illness Index; Confidence Intervals; cause of death; Human; mortality; Middle Age; Epilepsy/mo [Mortality]; Mental Retardation/mo [Mortality]; Cerebral Palsy/ep [Epidemiology]; Cerebral Palsy/mo [Mortality]; Epilepsy/di [Diagnosis]; Epilepsy/ep [Epidemiology]; Generalized/di [Diagnosis]; Generalized/ep [Epidemiology]; Generalized/mo [Mortality]; Mental Retardation/di [Diagnosis]; Mental Retardation/ep [Epidemiology]; Pneumonia/ep [Epidemiology]; Pneumonia/mo [Mortality]; Sweden/ep [Epidemiology] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Forsgren L; Edvinsson SO; Nystrom L; Blomquist HK Description An account of the resource PURPOSE: A cohort consisting of all persons with known mental retardation (MR) and living in a Swedish province on December 31, 1985, was followed for 7 years (1987-1992) to study the mortality pattern. METHODS: A file of the cohort was linked to the cause-of-death pattern of the general population in the study area. RESULTS: One hundred twenty-four deaths (8.4%) occurred among the 1,478 persons with MR. Thirty deaths (10.1%) occurred among the 296 persons with epilepsy and MR. The standardized mortality ratio (SMR) in those with only MR was significantly increased as compared with that of the general population: 1.6 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.3-2.0]; MR and epilepsy, 5.0 (CI 3.3-7.5); and MR, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy (CP), 5.8 (CI 3.4-9.7). Mortality was increased both in patients with partial seizures without seizures secondarily generalized (SMR 3.7, CI 1.0-13.6) and in patients with seizures secondarily generalized (5.0, CI 2.3-11.0). The highest mortality occurred in patients who had seizures that were always generalized from the onset: 8.1 (CI 5.7-11.5). Mortality increased with increasing seizure frequency during the year preceding the prevalence date. In patients with epilepsy and MR, pneumonia was the most common cause of death and a seizure was the probable cause of death in 6.7%. CONCLUSIONS: Epilepsy is associated with a significantly increased mortality in persons with MR. The increase is related to seizure type and seizure frequency. Death in persons with epilepsy and MR is seldom directly due to seizures. Other impairments associated with epilepsy and MR are important causes of death. 1996 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00533.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00533.x</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article 1996 Adult Backlog Blomquist HK Cause Of Death Cerebral Palsy/ep [Epidemiology] Cerebral Palsy/mo [Mortality] Cohort Studies Comorbidity Confidence Intervals Edvinsson SO Epilepsia Epilepsy Epilepsy/di [diagnosis] Epilepsy/ep [Epidemiology] Epilepsy/mo [Mortality] Follow-up Studies Forsgren L Generalized/di [Diagnosis] Generalized/ep [Epidemiology] Generalized/mo [Mortality] Human Journal Article Mental Retardation/di [Diagnosis] Mental Retardation/ep [Epidemiology] Mental Retardation/mo [Mortality] Middle Age Mortality Nystrom L Pneumonia/ep [Epidemiology] Pneumonia/mo [Mortality] Prevalence Severity Of Illness Index Sweden/ep [Epidemiology]