Study Profiles People at Highest Risk of Sudden Unepected Death in Epilepsy
American Epilepsy Society (AES)Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the most common condition-related cause of death in chronic epilepsy. Case-control studies using living people with epilepsy as controls have aimed at identifying factors that distinguish the epilepsy patient at risk of SUDEP, but there are disagreements between studies and a lack of precision in the risk estimates attributed, in part, to the small number of cases in each study. To counterbalance these study limitations, the Epidemiology Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) pooled data from four published studies of SUDEP from the U.S., Sweden, Scotland and England.