Incidence and Prevalence of Epilepsy

Age-Specific Incidence of Epilepsy, 1935-1984, Rochester, Minnesota⁹

Epidemiology in Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities

• Epilepsy occurs in 20% to 30% of children with intellectual/developmental disabilities¹¹
• Up to 21% of people with intellectual/developmental disabilities have absence seizures¹²
• Seizures are more likely to be generalized in people with intellectual/developmental disabilities¹²

DEPAKOTE and DEPAKOTE ER are not indicated for treatment of children under the age of ten years.
In elderly patients administered DEPAKOTE or DEPAKOTE ER, dosage should be increased more slowly and with regular monitoring for fluid and nutritional intake, dehydration, somnolence and other adverse events.

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