Epilepsy is over-represented among young individuals who died from COVID-19 in Hungary, according to data published in Seizure. Researchers analysed data for 11,686 individuals who died from COVID-19 in Hungary and found that 2.2% had epilepsy. Of those individuals who died under the age of 50 years, 9.3% had epilepsy. The median prevalence of epilepsy in Europe is 0.52%, indicating an over-representation of epilepsy among those who died from COVID-19. However, the authors acknowledge the absence of Hungarian epidemiological data on epilepsy as a limitation of their work.
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Horváth, R. A. et al. Epilepsy is overrepresented among young people who died from COVID-19: analysis of nationwide mortality data in Hungary. Seizure https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2021.11.013 (2021)
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Lempriere, S. High rate of epilepsy in young individuals who died with COVID-19. Nat Rev Neurol 18, 65 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-021-00610-9
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