作者: Taoufik Alsaadi , Khadija El Hammasi , Tarek M. Shahrour , Mustafa Shakra , Lamya Turkawi
DOI: 10.1155/2015/196373
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摘要: Depression and anxiety are highly prevalent in patients with epilepsy (PWE), prevalence rates ranging from 20% to 55%. The cause of this increased rate is multifactorial. thought share the same pathogenic mechanism. Anxiety, on other hand, seems have a among PWE comparable to, or even higher than, those reported for depression, it closely linked epilepsy. To test hypothesis, we screened depression 186 160 attending MS clinics, respectively, using standardized screening tools determine both anxiety, comparing these age, sex matched controls. Among three groups, only were at risk having (OR = 1.9), whereas was not. This finding could point shared mechanisms hypothesis between