Coexistence of schizophrenia and epilepsy: record-linkage studies.

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For many years, there has been interest in a possible link between epilepsy and schizophrenia. A recent study found a strong, bidirectional link between the two conditions: people with one had a higher than average risk of having the other. Using two large data sets of hospital admission data, we investigated whether schizophrenia and epilepsy occur together in individuals more commonly than expected by chance. We undertook a retrospective cohort study using the Oxford Record Linkage Study (O...

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Authors: Wotton, C; Goldacre, M

• Journal: Epilepsia
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 4
• Pages: e71-e74
• Place of publication: United States
• Publication date: 2012-04-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03390.x
• EISSN: 1528-1167
• ISSN: 0013-9580
• Language: English
• Keywords: Child, Preschool; Retrospective Studies; Humans; Epilepsy; Young Adult; Schizophrenia; Adult; Middle Aged; Aged; Female; Medical Record Linkage; Infant, Newborn; Child; Infant; Cohort Studies; Adolescent; Male