Epilepsy in prison: Elevated prevalence and no relationship to violence
| Autor: | Cecil Patmon, Tina E. Coleman, Steven Whitman, Robert Cohen, Bindu T. Desai, Lambert N. King |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Social characteristics Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Poison control Prison Violence Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Epilepsy mental disorders Injury prevention Craniocerebral Trauma Humans Medicine Psychiatry media_common business.industry Data Collection Prisoners Age Factors Human factors and ergonomics social sciences medicine.disease population characteristics Illinois Neurology (clinical) Epidemiologic Methods business |
| Zdroj: | Neurology. 34:775-775 |
| ISSN: | 1526-632X 0028-3878 |
| DOI: | 10.1212/wnl.34.6.775 |
| Popis: | The epidemiologic, clinical, and social characteristics of epilepsy were investigated in men entering the Illinois prison system and compared with a matched control group of prisoners without epilepsy. The prevalence of epilepsy was 2.4%, four times higher than the prevalence among men aged 20 to 39 in Rochester, MN. Head trauma was the probable cause of epilepsy among 45% of the prisoners with epilepsy, a much higher percentage than that reported in studies of other populations. In comparison with an age- and race-matched group of prisoners without epilepsy, the epilepsy group was not convicted of more serious or more violent crimes. |
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