by the numbers

[petero]

interesting
I had no idea it would be 1 in 26 - that's a pretty high number

http://www.epilepsy.com/newsletter/j...m_medium=email

65 million…
Individuals in the world have epilepsy

33 million…
The population of Canada.

54 million…
The population of France.

150,000…
New cases of epilepsy in the United States every year.

1 in 10,000…
Newly diagnosed epilepsy patients that will die from sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy).

38…
Drugs that are available for epilepsy use world-wide.

7th…
The rank that epilepsy merits on the global burden of mental health, neurological and substance use disorders worldwide after Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and depression and alcohol use; but ahead of migraine, panic disorder, insomnia, post-traumatic stress, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis.

2…
Number of antiepileptic drugs that needs to be tried and failed in order to be considered drug resistant to epilepsy.

1…
is the number of daytime seizures needed to trigger driving restrictions in every state in the U.S.

32…
days is the average waiting time for a new patient to see an epilepsy specialist.

25…
days waiting time on average for an inpatient evaluation to an epilepsy monitoring unit in the US.

166…
Number of epilepsy centers in the United States.

1 in every 26
Americans will develop epilepsy over the course of their lifetime.

by Joseph I. Sirven, MD
Editor-in-Chief, epilepsy.com
Last Reviewed: 6/20/2012

[Chaz1]

wow petero....interesting!

[Screamy]

Excellent post! Glad you posted all of this information, thanks Petero!