1. Inferências de estudo populacional sobre eventos não epilépticos
- Author
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Leandro Albuquerque Lemgruber Kropf, Erica da Silva van Beeck, Marleide da Mota Gomes, and Ivan Figueira
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Male ,Pediatrics ,Dissociative ,Epilepsy ,estudo populacional ,Epidemiology ,Dissociative disorders ,Child ,Aged, 80 and over ,community study ,biology ,Syncope (genus) ,Middle Aged ,Binomial Distribution ,Neurology ,Child, Preschool ,Anxiety ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Brazil ,RC321-571 ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,medicine.drug_class ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,Syncope ,lcsh:RC321-571 ,Interviews as Topic ,non-epileptic events ,eventos não epilépticos ,medicine ,Confidence Intervals ,Psychogenic disease ,Humans ,Psychiatry ,lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,Poverty ,Aged ,Eclampsia ,business.industry ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,epilepsy ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,epilepsia - Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the epidemiological importance of the different types of non-epileptic events (NEE) in a low-income urban community. METHOD: The patients suspected of having epilepsy, who were detected in the first phase (screening one) of this prevalence study, were interviewed by a neurologist in a non-structured neurological interview. These NEE were classified as physiological and psychogenic, subdivided by various types. The psychogenic NEE were classified according to the DSM-IV criteria. RESULTS: We compared the cases suspected of having epilepsy (n=176) with those not suspected (n=806) and discovered that those cases suspected of having epilepsy had a greater median age (
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- 2002