First unprovoked seizures among soldiers recruited to the Israeli Defense Forces during ten consecutive years - A population-based study.

FUS incidence rate was higher in combat soldiers, but they had a two-fold lower risk of additional seizures than non-combat soldiers, emphasizing the value of strenuous triggers as negative predictors for developing epilepsy. This suggests a shift in the perception of epilepsy from a "yes or no" condition to a continuous trend of preponderance for seizures, warranting changes in the ways etiologies of epilepsy are weighted and treatments are delivered.