Morillo L E
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L8.
Epilepsy Res Treat. 2012;2012:641323. doi: 10.1155/2012/641323. Epub 2011 Nov 24.
The incidence of epilepsy has bimodal distribution peaking at the extremes of life. Incidence is greater in younger and older age groups (Hauser et al., 1993, Sidenvall et al., 1993, Forsgren et al., 1996, and Olafsson et al., 2005). As the world population ages more elders with epilepsy will be identified. In the high-income countries with longer life expectancy, the number of elders with epilepsy will be even higher. CPSs account for 40% of all seizure types in the elderly (Hauser et al., 1992); however, the proportion with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is uncertain.
癫痫的发病率呈双峰分布，在生命的两端达到峰值。在较年轻和较年长的年龄组中发病率更高（豪泽等人，1993年；西登瓦尔等人，1993年；福斯格伦等人，1996年；奥拉夫松等人，2005年）。随着世界人口老龄化，将会发现更多患有癫痫的老年人。在预期寿命较长的高收入国家，患有癫痫的老年人数量会更高。全面性癫痫综合征占老年人所有发作类型的40%（豪泽等人，1992年）；然而，颞叶癫痫（TLE）的比例尚不确定。
