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01-06-2013 | Original Paper

Epilepsy in Individuals with a History of Asperger’s Syndrome: A Danish Nationwide Register-Based Cohort Study

Auteurs: Svend Erik Mouridsen, Bente Rich, Torben Isager

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 6/2013

Abstract

We performed a nationwide, register-based retrospective follow-up study of epilepsy in all people who were born between January 1, 1980 and June 29, 2006 and registered in the Danish Psychiatric Central Register with Asperger’s syndrome on February 7, 2011. All 4,180 identified cases with AS (3,431 males and 749 females) were screened through the nationwide Danish National Hospital Register (DNHR) with respect to epilepsy. Mean age at follow-up was 18.1 years (range 4–31 years). Of the 4,180 individuals with AS, 164 (3.9 %) were registered with at least one epilepsy diagnosis in the DNHR, which is significantly increased (p < 0.0001) relative to the same age group in the general population, where an estimate is about 2.0 %.

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Titel: Epilepsy in Individuals with a History of Asperger’s Syndrome: A Danish Nationwide Register-Based Cohort Study
Auteurs: Svend Erik Mouridsen
Bente Rich
Torben Isager
Publicatiedatum: 01-06-2013
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 6/2013
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1675-9

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