Dr Vikash Agarwal, DM Neurology, Senior Consultant Neurologist, Gleneagles Global Health City, Agarwal Neuro Clinic
Epilepsy is a very burning problem in our country. In a recent study conducted in Kerala, the prevalence of active epilepsy is 4.7 per 1000 population. There are different factors which decides the prevalence of epilepsy and these factors are different when we compare urban vs. rural population, for example: In urban population there may be a vascular risk factors and symptomatic epileptic risk cases or more factors related to tumors, whereas in rural population we see more of infections like neurocysticercosis and brain calcification due to neurocysticercosis or tuberculosis causing epilepsy or structural epilepsy. There is a huge variation but in general in physique the prevalence of epilepsy is somewhere around 5 to 10 per 1000 population. This presentation is focused on the topic of: