PMID- 23507331
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140211
LR  - 20220331
IS  - 1872-6844 (Electronic)
IS  - 0920-1211 (Linking)
VI  - 105
IP  - 1-2
DP  - 2013 Jul
TI  - Prevalence of epilepsy in the People's Republic of China: a systematic review.
PG  - 195-205
LID - S0920-1211(13)00040-5 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.02.002 [doi]
AB  - To date there has not been a nationwide systematic analysis of the prevalence of 
      epilepsy in China. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of 
      epilepsy in mainland China from the published studies and analyze the prevalence 
      of epilepsy by survey method, gender, location, age, seizure type and prevalence 
      of date. We searched the PubMed, Embase, Chinese Biological Medical Literature 
      (CBM), Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Wanfang and 
      Chongqing VIP databases for epidemiological studies on the prevalence of 
      epilepsy. Thirty-eight studies were included that comprised a total sample size 
      of 7,695,961, among whom 13,224 had epilepsy. The overall prevalence of epilepsy 
      was 2.89 per thousand. The prevalence of males and females were 3.83 per thousand and 3.45 per thousand, 
      respectively. The location-specific prevalence in urban and rural areas was 2.34 per thousand 
      and 3.17 per thousand, respectively. Prevalence by age groups, 0-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 
      40-49, 50-59, 60-69 and >/=70 were 2.21 per thousand, 3.23 per thousand, 3.14 per thousand, 2.83 per thousand, 2.96 per thousand, 2.61 per thousand, 2.76 per thousand 
      and 2.22 per thousand, respectively. In the subgroup analysis by prevalence date, prevalence 
      rate of epilepsy ranged from 1.19 per thousand to 6.70 per thousand. As for the seizure types, the 
      overall prevalence of generalized seizures, partial seizures and unclassifiable 
      seizures were 3.12 per thousand, 0.57 per thousand and 0.23 per thousand, respectively. Overall, the prevalence rate 
      of epilepsy is different for each area in mainland China. A higher prevalence of 
      epilepsy is found in the subgroup analysis by male, rural, age group of 10-19 and 
      generalized seizures. However, more epidemiological studies are needed from other 
      provinces to estimate the overall prevalence of epilepsy in mainland China.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Gu, Lian
AU  - Gu L
AD  - Department of Internal Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University 
      of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
FAU - Liang, Baoyun
AU  - Liang B
FAU - Chen, Qing
AU  - Chen Q
FAU - Long, Jianxiong
AU  - Long J
FAU - Xie, Juanjuan
AU  - Xie J
FAU - Wu, Guangliang
AU  - Wu G
FAU - Yan, Yan
AU  - Yan Y
FAU - Tan, Jinjing
AU  - Tan J
FAU - Dou, Weihua
AU  - Dou W
FAU - Chen, Wei
AU  - Chen W
FAU - Wu, Peng
AU  - Wu P
FAU - Wang, Jinping
AU  - Wang J
FAU - Su, Li
AU  - Su L
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
PT  - Systematic Review
DEP - 20130316
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Epilepsy Res
JT  - Epilepsy research
JID - 8703089
SB  - IM
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - Epilepsy/*diagnosis/*epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Prevalence
EDAT- 2013/03/20 06:00
MHDA- 2014/02/12 06:00
CRDT- 2013/03/20 06:00
PHST- 2012/09/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/12/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/02/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/03/20 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/03/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/02/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0920-1211(13)00040-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.02.002 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Epilepsy Res. 2013 Jul;105(1-2):195-205. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.02.002. 
      Epub 2013 Mar 16.