Evaluation of the clinical and electroencephalographic profile of a group of adult epileptic patients with controlled and uncontrolled seizures from the Epilepsy Clinic of the Hospital Universitário de Brasília
Abstract:A cross-sectional epidemiological study was done among a general population in a big hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. From an initial population of 1781 nursing personnel, 407 were called for a semi-structured interview based on a standard questionnaire.The average age of the interviewed population was 32.6 + 9.2 years old and 89.4% were female. Making use of the criteria of the International Headache Society, prevalence of migraine was detected in 53.1% of them (22.1% migraine without aura; 7,9% migraine with a… Show more
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