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Premature mortality in active convulsive epilepsy in rural Kenya: causes and associated factors

Anthony K Ngugi1, Christian Bottomley, Gregory Fegan

  • 1From the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme (A.K.N., G.F., E.C., R.O., E.B., C.R.N.), Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health (A.K.N., C.B., I.K.), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Studies of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems (SEEDS)-INDEPTH Network (A.K.N., E.B., C.R.N.), Accra, Ghana; Research Support Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences (A.K.N.), Aga Khan University (East Africa), Nairobi, Kenya; MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health (C.B., I.K.), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Nuffield Department of Medicine (G.F.), Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Neurosciences Unit (B.N., C.R.N.), UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy (J.W.S.), UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Epilepsy Society (J.W.S.), Chalfont St Peter, United Kingdom; SEIN - Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (J.W.S.), Heemstede, the Netherlands; Clinical Research Unit (C.R.N.), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; and Department of Psychiatry (C.R.N.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

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