“…It is a risk factor for stroke, which itself is a risk factor for epilepsy, but a direct association between high blood pressure and epilepsy was not found in our study and not reported in any literature yet. But complying with the reports of other studies the association of diabetes was significant (p=0.01) There is evidence to suggest that antibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase, an auto-antigen implicated in type 1 diabetes, are also associated with the development of epilepsy 44 .…”