Commentary: Epilepsy is a Global Problem.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Bloodletting as a harmful and misguided first-aid response to seizures in sub-saharan Africa: a case-based review.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2026
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2. Graph Attention Networks for Detecting Epilepsy From EEG Signals Using Accessible Hardware in Low-Resource Settings.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2026
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3. Ameliorating Effect of Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Dravet Syndrome.Molecular neurobiology · 2022
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4. Assessment of Quality of Life of Epileptic Patients in Ethiopia.International journal of chronic diseases · 2020
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5. The Recommendations for the Management of Chinese Children With Epilepsy During the COVID-19 Outbreak.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020
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6. Altered DMN functional connectivity and regional homogeneity in partial epilepsy patients: a seventy cases study.Oncotarget · 2017
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7. Surgical advancements in pediatric epilepsy surgery: from the mysterious to the minimally invasive.Translational pediatrics · 2016
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8. [Therapeutic drug monitoring of three antiepileptic drugs - Back on twenty years of experience].The Pan African medical journal · 2016
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9. Critical Evaluation of P2X7 Receptor Antagonists in Selected Seizure Models.PloS one · 2016
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Corrections and comments

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  Epilepsy is ubiquitous, but more devastating in the poorer regions of the world... or is it?2014

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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