Seizure and epilepsy risk up in six months after COVID-19: study
UK researchers compared the incidence of both conditions among patients with COVID-19 or influenza
The incidence of new seizures or epilepsy is increased in patients in the six months following COVID-19 compared with matched patients with influenza, according to a study published online in Neurology.
Maxime Taquet, MD, from the University of Oxford in the UK, and colleagues examined the potential association between COVID-19 and seizures or epilepsy in the six months after infection using data from an electronic health record network of 81 million people.
