Epilepsy commonly missed as cause of death
6th January 2016
By Amanda Davey
The risk of sudden death in epilepsy could be considerably reduced if it wasn’t so often missed as the cause of death, says a paper published in the journal Neurology.
Dr Orrin Devinsky, a professor of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry at New York University, writes that epilepsy deaths are commonly misattributed to heart disease, obesity, addiction and
