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Poor diet, lack of exercise and an increase in alcohol abuse has led to steep rises in those suffering from lifestyle diseases in the past five years, according to official figures published yesterday. Levels of diabetes have more than doubled in that period, showed figures released by the Information Centre, a body responsible for NHS data. While the number of people with high blood pressure has risen by more than a third in five years — one in nine people now seeing their GP is suffering from high blood pressure. The number of people with epilepsy increased by 15.6 per cent and those with heart disease by 6.2 per cent. |
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| I would too Bernard. I keep picturing a stack of blocks, and a few are no problem, but stack one too many or be too hasty and they come crashing down. Look at the number of children now on inhalers for allergy disorders. Frightening. |
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| Bernard - I think I still have the link in myspace.com bulletin - I will try to see if I can backtrack it down for you, I think it came from a non-epileptic seizures article or the Epilepsy Australia - I didn't bookmark it - Sorry!
__________________ Sharon Advocate & Member of Head Storms - Resource Center "Vujà dé - the feeling you've never been in here before!" |
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| Bernard: Here it is from the United Kingdom Public Health Book: someone could have taken it out of context United Kingdom Public Health Book
__________________ Sharon Advocate & Member of Head Storms - Resource Center "Vujà dé - the feeling you've never been in here before!" |
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| I appreciate the effort brain, but I'm not sure what I'm looking at in your link. What I was hopeing to find was the % of population with epilepsy by country from around the world.
__________________ Check out this chart of alternative epilepsy treatments and this page on EEG Neurofeedback Would you like to help support this forum? |
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| It could have been a journalist's typo or error. But I've checked myspace bulletins and now finding out they've trimmed back just how far back you can go now ... so it's gone! But if it was THAT BIG of a news, it would have been on other "BIG" places like Epilepsy.com, Neurology, etc ... I haven't been able to locate it either, give or take a few margins.
__________________ Sharon Advocate & Member of Head Storms - Resource Center "Vujà dé - the feeling you've never been in here before!" |
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| Have you been able to find any more information on this Bernard? |
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| No. I gave up looking after several hours (which is usually sufficient for me to find anything - if it exists on the net). I also tried emailing the WHO and others with no success.
__________________ Check out this chart of alternative epilepsy treatments and this page on EEG Neurofeedback Would you like to help support this forum? |
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International StatsThis is all I could find, it is % by country in 2004: Main Page: http://www.who.int/mental_health/neurology/epilepsy/en/ Specific page: http://www.who.int/mental_health/neu...20in%20WPR.pdf If you look at page twenty of sixty-nine, the comparisons by country will begin. Did you already see this? |
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| Thanks brain & KAM. KAM's second link contained a table that was exactly what I was looking for (though not as complete or up to date as I would like - still, better than nothing!). The data is not uniform enough in its composition to really draw any conclusions, but there is enough variance to suggest that cultural/dietary/environmental factors might be playing a role in the rates of incidence IMO.
__________________ Check out this chart of alternative epilepsy treatments and this page on EEG Neurofeedback Would you like to help support this forum? |
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| I found this on the web, it's actually on WHO's site, more up to date (2005) and many more countries in the study, the graphs start on page twenty-three of the pdf and on page 92 it lists the countries responding. http://www.who.int/mental_health/neu...y_atlas_r1.pdf |