TY - JOUR T1 - <span hwp:id="article-title-1" class="article-title">Epilepsy and risk of injury</span><span hwp:id="article-title-2" class="sub-article-title">About epilepsy</span> JF - Neurology JO - Neurology SP - e820 LP - e822 DO - 10.1212/WNL.0000000000005014 VL - 90 IS - 9 AU - Karceski, Steven Y1 - 2018/02/27 UR - http://n.neurology.org/content/90/9/e820.abstract N2 - In their article “Risk for injuries and accidents in epilepsy: a prospective population-based cohort study,” Mahler et al.1 examine how epilepsy and its associated medical conditions are related to accidental injury. For many years, it has been known that people with epilepsy have more accidental injuries than people who do not have seizures. It might be assumed that having seizures causes events. However, the link may not be as clear and simple as it sounds. For instance, what if the reason a person had seizures was because of a past stroke? In addition to causing seizures, the stroke may have left the person with weakness. If a fall (or accident) occurred, was it due to the weakness, or did the person fall during a seizure? What if the person fell because of dizziness? Dizziness can have many different causes, only one of which is seizures. ER -