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EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR
卷 117, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.107878
关键词
Epilepsy; Epidemiology; Cardiovascular disease
资金
- University of Michigan Department of Neurology Training Grant [5T32NS007222-38]
- Early Postdoc.Mobility grant fromthe Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [P2LAP3_184042]
- NIH [KL2TR002241]
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [K08 NS082597]
- National Institutes of Health National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities [R01 MD008879]
- UCB (Union Chimique Belge), a global biopharmaceutical company, via an investigator-initiated grant
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [P2LAP3_184042] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
This study compared cardiovascular risks, risk awareness, and treatment concordance in individuals with epilepsy versus without epilepsy. The results show that despite an increased cardiovascular disease risk in epilepsy patients, there were no significant differences in awareness, treatment, and control of individual risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension.
Objective: To evaluate whether cardiovascular risk, risk awareness, and guideline concordant treatment differ in individuals with versus without epilepsy. Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We included participants >= 18 years for 2013-2018. We classified participants as having epilepsy if reporting >= 1 medication treating seizures. We calculated 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk using the revised pooled cohort equation. We compared unadjusted and adjusted risk for participants with versus without epilepsy. We then assessed hypertension and diabetes disease awareness and control, plus statin guideline-concordance. We assessed mediators for both ASCVD risk and cardiovascular disease awareness. Results: Of 17,961 participants, 154 (0.9%) had epilepsy. Participants with epilepsy reported poorer diet (p = 0.03), fewer minutes of moderate-vigorous activity per day (p < 0.01), and increased frequency of cardiovascular conditions (e.g. coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke). There was no difference in control of individual examination and laboratory risk factors between groups (A1c, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, high-density lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein, total cholesterol). However, epilepsy was associated with 52% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0-130%) increase in ASCVD risk, which became nonsignificant after adjusting for health behaviors. No single studied variable (income, Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), diet, smoking) had a significant indirect effect. Participants with epilepsy reported increased hypertension awareness which was trivially but significantly mediated by having a routine place of healthcare (indirect effect: 1% absolute increase (95% CI: 0-1%), and they reported increased rates of hypertension treatment and guideline-concordant statin therapy. Participants with versus without epilepsy reported similar rates of blood pressure control and diabetes awareness, treatment, and control. Conclusions: Participants with epilepsy had increased ASCVD risk, despite similar or better awareness, treatment, and control of individual risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension. Our results suggest that epilepsy is associated with numerous health behaviors leading to cardiovascular disease, though the causal pathway is complex as these variables (income, depression, diet, exercise, smoking) generally served as confounders rather than mediators. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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