Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: A Personalized Prediction Tool

• Published in: Neurology Vol. 96; no. 21; p. e2627
• Main Authors: Jha, Ashwani, Oh, Cheongeun, Hesdorffer, Dale, Diehl, Beate, Devore, Sasha, Brodie, Martin J, Tomson, Torbjörn, Sander, Josemir W, Walczak, Thaddeus S, Devinsky, Orrin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 25.05.2021
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Bayes Theorem; Epilepsy; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Risk Factors; Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; Young Adult

To develop and validate a tool for individualized prediction of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) risk, we reanalyzed data from 1 cohort and 3 case-control studies undertaken from 1980 through 2005. We entered 1,273 epilepsy cases (287 SUDEP, 986 controls) and 22 clinical predictor variabl...