Prayers 4 Chloe's Fight with Epilepsy

10/23/2023

10/23/2023

Today, October 18th, is SUDEP action day

Not everyone with epilepsy is aware of or told about SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death In Epilepsy) and epilepsy risks, which can put them in danger of worsening seizures, injury, or dying prematurely. People with epilepsy & their families WANT to be told about SUDEP and epilepsy risks. Many bereaved families were NOT told about SUDEP & wish that this vital information had been shared as it might have saved their loved one’s life.

It is time to change this. So that every person with epilepsy, their families, and health professionals are not only aware of these risks (which can lead to death if ignored) but can take an active role in discussing, reviewing, and reducing them.

07/04/2023

"Rather than statistical significance of group-level differences, effect size should be used as an indicator of a variable's biomarker potential. The minimal required effects size for individual biomarkers—a Cohen's d of 1.25—is large. This calls for multivariable approaches, in which combining multiple variables with smaller effect sizes could increase the overall effect size and discriminative power."

Read this open-access article in Epileptic Disorders at doi.org/10.1002/epd2.20010.