Santhouse Jacqueline, Carrier Christine, Arya Sanjay, Fowler Helen, Duncan Susan
Department of Neurology, Greater Manchester Neurosciences Centre Hope Hospital, Salford, UK.
Epilepsia. 2007 May;48(5):1019-22. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00971.x. Epub 2007 Feb 5.
Epilepsy and neurocardiogenic syncope share a final common pathway of loss of consciousness and consequent social disruption. We compared 52 patients with syncope, 96 with epilepsy and 100 controls. Epilepsy and syncope patients expressed significantly higher levels of anxiety and depression and reported significantly less good quality of life (QoL) compared with controls. There were no significant differences on any of the QoL parameters measured between the syncope and epilepsy patients. These findings suggest the main contributor to poor QoL in epilepsy may be the unpredictable loss of control that is the hallmark of the condition.
癫痫和神经心源性晕厥有着意识丧失及随之而来的社会功能障碍这一共同的最终途径。我们比较了52例晕厥患者、96例癫痫患者和100例对照者。与对照者相比，癫痫患者和晕厥患者表现出明显更高水平的焦虑和抑郁，且报告的生活质量（QoL）显著更低。晕厥患者和癫痫患者在任何所测量的生活质量参数上均无显著差异。这些发现表明，癫痫患者生活质量差的主要原因可能是该病标志性的不可预测的失控状态。
