Prevalence and factors associated with convulsive status epilepticus in Africans with epilepsy

Symon M Kariuki¹, Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige², Ryan G Wagner²+8

• ¹From Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (S.M.K., E.C., G.K., A.K.N., C.R.J.N.), Kilifi, Kenya; Nuffield Department of Medicine (S.M.K.), University of Oxford, UK; Studies of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems (SEEDS)-INDEPTH Network (A.K.-M., R.G.W., E.C., G.K., A.K.N., C.R.J.N.), Accra, Ghana; Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance System (A.K.-M.), Iganga; the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health (A.K.-M.), Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda; MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) (R.G.W.), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Epidemiology and Global Health (R.G.W.), Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden; the Neurophysiology Department (S.W.), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London; the Neurosciences Unit (B.G.R.N., C.R.J.N.), UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK; Population Health Sciences/Research Support Unit (A.K.N.), Faculty of Health Sciences, Aga Khan University (East Africa), Nairobi, Kenya; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (J.W.S.), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London; Epilepsy Society (J.W.S.), Bucks, UK; Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland-SEIN (J.W.S.), Heemstede, Netherlands; Clinical Research Unit (C.R.J.N.), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and the Department of Psychiatry (C.R.J.N.), University of Oxford, UK. skariuki@kemri-wellcome.org.+1