The Prevalence of Epilepsy in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan
| Autor: | Sharif I. Magalov, Gjumrakch Aliev, Nusrat F. Hasanov, Zakir B. Mustafayev, Nargiz X. Azizova, Emin N. Hasanov, Sadraddin A. Kazimov, Aydun N. Novruzov, Saleh Sh. Sultanov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Azerbaijan Population Developing country Neurological disorder Disease Epilepsy Epidemiology Prevalence medicine Humans Psychiatry education Developing Countries Pharmacology education.field_of_study business.industry Third world Data Collection General Neuroscience medicine.disease Treatment strategy Female business |
| Zdroj: | CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets. 11:102-109 |
| ISSN: | 1871-5273 |
| DOI: | 10.2174/187152712800269768 |
| Popis: | Epilepsy is a devastating neurological disorder in which those afflicted can gain benefit from specific treatments based on their genetics and geographic location. Currently the prevalence of epilepsy is estimated at 0.5-3% of the world-wide population, and is increasing in developing countries. In order to make more accurate assessments of the prevalence of epilepsy, we applied the capture-recapture method in a 12-month study of epilepsy in a population from the Sharur district of Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan with 114,451 people from sixty nine villages and towns. The following methods were applied to determine epilepsy: Door To Door (DTD) survey, Non-Medical Source (NMS), and Medical Source. Using these three techniques, 1,032 patients with epilepsy (9.02/1000) were included in our study. The DTD survey determined 627 patients with epilepsy (5.48/1000) and 247 (2.16/1000) from the NMS methods versus 158 (1.38/1000) from the Medical Source (MS) methods. Applying the capture-recapture method, NMS, and DTD methods, the number of epilepsy cases increased to 1,330 (11.62/1000) [95% CI: 10.21-13.03]. The combinations of these methods show that 887 people (7.75/1000) have a diagnosis of epilepsy. Multiple epidemiological tasks used in our study can be used to estimate clinical signs and/or markers in future applications for the determination and development of treatment strategies for this devastating disease in the third world countries such as the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. |
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