Childhood epilepsy linked with increased risk of suicidal behaviour
It's important to screen these patients routinely as they enter adolescence, neurologist Dr John Lawson says
Patients with diagnosed childhood-onset epilepsy have a 1.6-fold increased risk of self-harming behaviours and suicidal ideation compared with peers, a study suggests.
In one of the few population-based cohort studies to consider the issue, US neurologists compared data from the medical records of 339 children diagnosed with epilepsy with 678 matched controls.
