Epilepsy in a Longitudinal Survey of 5,000 Children

Fits in hydrocephalic children

“…6 raised intracranial pressure, 4 septicaemia, 6 cause unknown, 4 pneumonia, 6 ventriculitis. Discussion The incidence of fits in the child population has been estimated in a number of large population studies (Miller et al, 1960;Cooper, 1965;Van den Berg and Yerushalmy, 1969;Ross, 1973). In the under 5 year olds a figure of about 3% appears to be an approximation of the proportion of the children that have a fit or fits, either febrile or nonfebrile, though the Newcastle '1000 family survey' in 1960 suggested a figure of 7 2% (Miller et al, 1960).…”

Epilepsy: some epidemiological aspects

“…Only by the age of 1 Odid the Rochester, M innesota, rates reach the cumulative incidence for isolated and recurrent seizures of 10 per 1000 reached by age 5 in Oakland (Hauser & Kurland, 1975). Other incidence rates, including those from 2 British studies which include all types of fits of whatever origin, are much higher than either of these: an estimated 25 per 1000 in the first 2 years of life in the 1946 British national birth cohort (Cooper, 1965), approximately 61 per 1000 in the first 5 years in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1000 family study (Miller et al 1960), and an extraordinary cumulative rate of 192 per 1000 to age 5 in an Israeli study (CostefF, 1965). From the data at hand, we are free to choose between true variation, under-reporting with many false negatives, over-reporting with many false positives, or all three.…”

Critical Evaluation of the Role of Immunization as an Etiological Factor of Infantile Spasms

“…The precise incidence of infantile spasms is not known, and there are some figures suggesting that the incidence may not be remarkably low. The incidence of convulsive disorders in infants less than 2 years of age was observed to be 2.3O10, according to Cooper (1968). It would follow that about 1.2010 of infants below 12 months of age may develop convulsions.…”