PRESCRIBING PATTERNS OF ANTI-EPILEPTICS IN PEDIATRICS AT A SECONDARY CARE HOSPITAL
Venu Madhav Tadi*, Lakshmisetty Lakshmi Pujitha, Dr. M. Prasada Rao, Dr. Y. Narasimha Rao
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Epilepsy is one of the most common serious neurological disorders affecting about 22 million people as of 2013. It affects 1% of the population by age 20 and 3% of the population by age 75. It is more common in males than females. Most of those with the disorder (80%) are in the developing world. The estimated prevalence of active epilepsy as of 2012 is in the range 3–10 per 1,000, with active epilepsy defined as someone with epilepsy who has had a least one unprovoked seizure in the last five years. Epilepsy begins each year in 40–70 per 100,000 in developed countries and 80–140 per 100,000 in developing countries. Poverty is a risk in the developed world epilepsy most commonly starts either in the young or in the old.
Keywords: Anti-Epileptic Drugs, Pediatric Population and CBCL.
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