Epilepsy
Finnish population study shows birth rate lower in people with epilepsy
Published in Health and Medicine Week, July 26th, 2004
"Few reports on population-based studies of birth rate among epilepsy patients have been published. In most previous studies, fertility has been lower among epilepsy patients than in the rest of the population. However, conflicting results have also been reported. Because of small samples and selective material, the generalizability of these results is also limited," M. Artama and colleagues, University of Tampere.
This team "conducted a population-based cohort study of birth rate (1985-2001) in a nationwide Finnish...
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