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Prevalence and risk factors for Active Convulsive Epilepsy in Kintampo, Ghana

INTRODUCTION: Epilepsy is common in sub-Saharan Africa, but there is little data in West Africa, to develop public health measures for epilepsy in this region. METHODS: We conducted a three-stage cross-sectional survey to determine the prevalence and risk factors for active convulsive epilepsy (ACE)...

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Autores principales:	Ae-Ngibise, Kenneth Ayuurebobi, Akpalu, Bright, Ngugi, Anthony, Akpalu, Albert, Agbokey, Francis, Adjei, Patrick, Punguyire, Damien, Bottomley, Christian, Newton, Charles, Owusu-Agyei, Seth
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4561141/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26401223 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.21.29.6084

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