What's in store 5 decades following childhood-onset epilepsy?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/w-wis100515.php

Public Release: 5-Oct-2015
What's in store 5 decades following childhood-onset epilepsy?
Wiley

A 45-year study of 179 individuals with childhood-onset epilepsy indicates that patients' long-term health is excellent, with most attaining 10-year remission off medications, which is the definition of resolved epilepsy.

Despite having excellent seizure outcomes, individuals often have abnormal neurologic signs including markers of cerebrovascular disease that may be a risk factor for future stroke and cognitive impairment.

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