Abstract
Objective
Due to the high clinical heterogeneity of epilepsy, there is a critical need for novel metrics aimed at capturing its biological and phenotypic complexity. Frailty is increasingly recognized in various medical disciplines as a useful construct to understand differences in susceptibility to adverse outcomes. Here, we develop a frailty index (FI) for patients with epilepsy (PwE) and explore its association with demographic and clinical features.
Methods
In this cross-sectional study, we consecutively enrolled 153 PwE from an outpatient epilepsy clinic. Participants were ...
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