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Athanasios Gaitatzis
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 20
Citations - 1945
Athanasios Gaitatzis is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Epilepsy & Population. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1795 citations. Previous affiliations of Athanasios Gaitatzis include Telford & UCL Institute of Neurology.
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The epidemiology of the comorbidity of epilepsy in the general population.
TL;DR: The epidemiology of somatic and psychiatric conditions in adults with epilepsy in the community and compare it to that of people without epilepsy are described.
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The psychiatric comorbidity of epilepsy
TL;DR: A non‐systematic review of the literature allows us to draw some useful, although not definite, conclusions about the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in epilepsy.
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The somatic comorbidity of epilepsy: a weighty but often unrecognized burden.
Athanasios Gaitatzis,Sanjay M. Sisodiya,Sanjay M. Sisodiya,Josemir W. Sander,Josemir W. Sander +4 more
TL;DR: An etiologic classification of comorbidity into uncertain (coincidence or unknown), causal (cause), shared risk factors (common disease mechanisms or shared predisposing risk factors), and resultant (consequence) is proposed.
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Suicide in people with epilepsy: How great is the risk?
TL;DR: Suicide is more common in populations with epilepsy, but estimates vary concerning the magnitude of the risk, and this meta-analysis aimed to estimate the risk using meta‐analysis.
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Life expectancy in people with newly diagnosed epilepsy.
TL;DR: It appears that the higher mortality rates in people with newly diagnosed epilepsy translate into decreased life expectancy, but the model provides broad estimates.