London - researchers said the severe brain injury, people exposed to a substantial risk of injury epilepsy for more than a decade after being injured for the first time, a result that suggests there may be an opportunity to prevent this situation.
The Danish team found that the risk of epilepsy was more than doubled following a minor brain injury or a broken skull and was seven times more likely in patients with serious injuries to the brain.
Jacob Christensen wrote his colleagues and the University Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark, The Lancet, Lancet that the risk remained constant after more than ten years and in people over the age of 15 years.
The researchers said "potential brake on the brain injury, an important indicator of the risk of epilepsy for many years after the injury."
They added, "drug treatment after a brain injury in order to prevent epilepsy after injury was disheartening but our calls for a separation for a long period of treatment and preventive potential of the patients at great risk."
The researchers analyzed data from the Office of national registration of potential brake on the brain injury and epilepsy among the 1.6 million young people born in Denmark between 1977 and 2002.
The Danish team found that the risk of epilepsy was more than doubled following a minor brain injury or a broken skull and was seven times more likely in patients with serious injuries to the brain.
Jacob Christensen wrote his colleagues and the University Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark, The Lancet, Lancet that the risk remained constant after more than ten years and in people over the age of 15 years.
The researchers said "potential brake on the brain injury, an important indicator of the risk of epilepsy for many years after the injury."
They added, "drug treatment after a brain injury in order to prevent epilepsy after injury was disheartening but our calls for a separation for a long period of treatment and preventive potential of the patients at great risk."
The researchers analyzed data from the Office of national registration of potential brake on the brain injury and epilepsy among the 1.6 million young people born in Denmark between 1977 and 2002.
