Prospective Cross Sectional Study on Risk Factor Assessment of Epilepsy

Abstract

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological & non-communicable disorder of the brain that affects around 50 million people worldwide. It is characterized by recurrent seizures, which are brief episodes of involuntary movement that may involve a part of the body (partial) or the entire body (generalized) and are sometimes accompanied by loss of consciousness and uncontrolled bowel or bladder function. It is estimated in various studies that the overall prevalence in India is 5.59-10 per 1000. There are several common risk factors like occurrence of high fever during childhood, stress, consanguinity, alcohol, new born distress  etc. leading to epilepsy. The motive of this study is to assess risk factors associated with occurrence of epilepsy along with its prevalence prioritizing different set of age groups and to identify the most frequent type of epilepsy in a locality. This study permits to capacitate early detection of the disease leading to improved clinical care.