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Below is an article I recieved today about vitamin D deficiency and seizure disorders. Vitamin D deficiency is one of the recognized links to seizures and is also a common side effect of many AEDs. It is free to get a membership to this medical news letter.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/567073?src=mp
Below is an article I recieved today about vitamin D deficiency and seizure disorders. Vitamin D deficiency is one of the recognized links to seizures and is also a common side effect of many AEDs. It is free to get a membership to this medical news letter.
Link to full article:Vitamin D Deficiency Highly Prevalent Among Epilepsy Patients
Caroline Cassels
December 6, 2007 (Philadelphia) — New research shows almost half of all patients with epilepsy are vitamin D deficient and suggests men are equally, if not more frequently, affected.
Presented here at the American Epilepsy Society 61st Annual Meeting, the study showed 44.5% of epilepsy patients — 45.3% of men and 43.7% of women — were vitamin D deficient, putting these patients at potential increased risk for a wide variety of conditions, including osteoporosis, autoimmune disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and infectious disease, among others...
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/567073?src=mp