Epilepsy Basics
A brain condition that causes frequent, spontaneous seizures.
What is epilepsy?
India carries nearly this fraction of the global burden of epilepsy.
What is one-sixth?
These regions show nearly double the epilepsy rates compared to urban areas.
What are rural areas?
Neuroinfections, NCC, and this type of trauma are preventable causes of secondary epilepsy
What is neurotrauma?
This association defines obesity as a chronic, relapsing, multi-factorial neurobehavioral disease.
What is the Obesity Medicine Association?
Epilepsy may be diagnosed when seizures occur without these types of external causes.
What are triggers or external causes (such as fever, injury, or illness)?
More than this many people in India are estimated to have epilepsy, out of 70 million worldwide.
What is 12 million?
These conditions—such as systemic and central nervous system infections—contribute to higher epilepsy rates in certain regions.
What are systemic and CNS infections?
Preventing neurotrauma and infections requires interventions at this level of society.
What is the community level?
Obesity increases risk for these two major cardiovascular conditions.
What are heart disease and stroke?
This word describes seizures that occur without warning or identifiable triggers.
What is “spontaneous” (in relation to seizures)?
Epilepsy is the second most common condition in this medical specialty.
What is neurology?
This gender has generally higher prevalence and incidence, though the gap is narrowing.
What is male?
Advances in diagnosis and management have led to new surveys in this scientific field.
What is neuroepidemiology?
Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s disease are examples of these costly health issues worsened by obesity.
What are comorbidities?
Although causes are often unclear, seizures may be linked to these two factors.
What are brain damage and family predisposition?
India’s prevalence and incidence rates are comparable to those found in these countries.
What are high-income countries (HICs)?
Low income and less education are part of this risk category that increases epilepsy rates.
What is low socioeconomic status?
India has begun establishing these systems to track epilepsy cases more comprehensively.
What are epilepsy registries?
The WHO describes obesity as one of the most neglected problems in this field.
What is public health?
Even though they look similar, these events can occur from fever, infection, or trauma and therefore are not considered epilepsy.
What are provoked seizures?
The incidence of epilepsy in India is within this numerical range per 1,000 population per year.
What is 0.2–0.6?
Limited services and higher rates of CNS infections are factors contributing to prevalence differences between these two area types.
What are rural and urban areas?
Future studies aim to use nationally representative populations to strengthen this major health goal.
What is a strong public health response?
India is shifting from an underweight population to an overweight one in this rapid national process.
What is an epidemiological transition?