Risk of Unnatural Mortality in Epilepsy

Comment

Mohamad Koubeissi. Epilepsy Curr. 2018 Nov-Dec.

. 2018 Nov-Dec;18(6):365-366.

doi: 10.5698/1535-7597.18.6.365.

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Comment on

Risk of Unnatural Mortality in People With Epilepsy.
Gorton HC, Webb RT, Carr MJ, DelPozo-Banos M, John A, Ashcroft DM. Gorton HC, et al. JAMA Neurol. 2018 Aug 1;75(8):929-938. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2018.0333. JAMA Neurol. 2018. PMID: 29630689 Free PMC article.

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