ArticleFrontiers in neurology2022
Current Cigarette Smoking Is Associated With a High Seizure Frequency and Anxiety Symptoms in People With Epilepsy.
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- Exploring the Smoking-Epilepsy Nexus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies : Smoking and epilepsy.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Time-dependent risk of sleep disorders in patients with epilepsy: a nationwide cohort study.BMC neurology · 2026Article
- Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy, Smoking Initiation, and the Risk of Epilepsy in the UK Biobank.Neuroepidemiology · 2026Article
- Smoking and epilepsy in national health interview survey: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- The association between active and passive tobacco smoke exposures and epilepsy in United States participants of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2013-2018).Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Epilepsy and nicotine use: Exploring disparities in ENDS and cigarette use among US adults with epilepsy.Epilepsy & behavior : E&B · 2025Article
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Abstract
Purpose: This study aims to answer the following questions: how many people with epilepsy (PWE) have cigarette smoking habits? Which demographic or clinical characteristics are associated with cigarette smoking? Is cigarette smoking related to depressive and anxiety symptoms in PWE? Methods: A total of 524 PWE were included in the final analysis. Demographic and clinical data were gathered and recorded. Smoking status was identified. The associations of smoking status with the clinical features of epilepsy and depressive and anxiety symptoms were evaluated by logistic regression models. Results: The overall prevalence of cigarette smoking was 23.5% (123 PWE) in this sample. In the multivariate logistic regression model, men (adjusted OR = 10.414, 95% CI: 5.552-19.535, Conclusion: Our findings suggested that the overall prevalence of cigarette smoking was 23.5% in adults with epilepsy, which is slightly lower than that (26.6%) in general adults in China. In the present study, cigarette smoking was associated with men, high seizure frequency, and anxiety symptoms in PWE. Further prospective clinical studies with larger sample sizes are required to confirm our findings.
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