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Arrhythmias and sudden death
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Sudden cardiac death is associated both with epilepsy and with use of antiepileptic medications
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- Published on: 22 December 2014
- Published on: 22 December 2014Re:Correspondence: sudden death is associated both with epilepsy and with use of antiepileptic medicationsShow More
To the Editor,
We thank the authors for their letter. The question is raised whether our study is able to distinguish between the effect of using antiepileptic medications (AEMs) and epilepsy on SCD risk. We studied SCD risk among AEM users (with and without epilepsy).1 We show in multiple ways that AEM use increases SCD risk, independently from epilepsy and other confounders. Notably, SCD risk in non-epilepsy pa...
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