Vascular risk factors and oxidative stress as independent predictors of asymptomatic atherosclerosis in adult patients with epilepsy

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
3053079	Epilepsy Research	2007	10 Pages	PDF

Abstract

This study supports that in patients with epilepsy, various vascular risk factors and CA-IMT, get worse which could be attributed to epilepsy itself and/or its antiepileptic medications.

Keywords

MDA Ox-LDL VPA ICA AEDs HDL-C Cbz IMT LDL-C vWF CCA TAC TBARS ROS Atherosclerosis Mann–Whitney test Epilepsy Triglycerides Oxidative stress tHcy antiepileptic drugs Valproate body mass index BMI internal carotid artery common carotid artery Intima-media thickness Total antioxidant capacity Vascular risk factors oxidized low density lipoprotein High density lipoprotein-cholesterol malondialdehyde total homocysteine thiobarbituric acid reactive substance carbamazepine total cholesterol Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol glutathione peroxidase Reactive oxygen species

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Vascular risk factors and oxidative stress as independent predictors of asymptomatic atherosclerosis in adult patients with epilepsy

Authors

Sherifa A. Hamed, Enas A. Hamed, Ragaa Hamdy, Toshitaka Nabeshima,