A Nationwide Cohort Study of Epilepsy-Related Death in Young People
Release Date: 01/17/2022
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info_outlineDr. Halley Alexander discusses the utility of a new systematic classification of epilepsy-related mortality used in a nationwide cohort study of children and young adults in Denmark with Dr. Marius Kløvgaard.