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Long-term physical and psychiatric morbidities and mortality of untreated, deferred, and immediately treated epilepsy.

Tianrui RenYingtong LiMichael BurgessSameer SharmaMaria RychkovaJohn DunneJudy LeeCédric LaloyauxNicholas LawnPatrick KwanZhibin Chen MBiostat
Published in: Epilepsia (2023)
Newly diagnosed epilepsy patients with deferred or no treatment did not have worse outcomes than those immediately treated. Instead, immediately treated patients had greater health care utilization, likely reflecting more severe underlying epilepsy etiology. Our findings emphasize the importance of individualizing epilepsy treatment and recognition and management of the significant comorbidities, particularly psychiatric, that ensue following a diagnosis of epilepsy.
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