Hospital admissions for epilepsy change with the weather: study
Findings particularly evident in patients with generalised seizures, but not focal seizures.
Climatic changes are possible trigger factors for seizure-related hospitalisations in patients with epilepsy, a study shows.
Researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Hospital Erlangen in Germany looked at data on almost 9,370 patients with epilepsy who were admitted to the hospital due to epileptic seizures.
