Epileptic Seizures During Pregnancy May Raise Risk Of Preterm Delivery

Pregnant women who have seizures are at increased risk of giving birth to premature or small infants when compared with normal women, reports Taiwan researchers in Archives of Neurology.

It has been estimated that less than 1% of women ave seizure disorder, known as epilepsy during pregnancy.

Most of these women have no pregnancy complications, but there is a high risk of still births and birth defects in infants and even some anti-epileptic medications are associated to such complications.

Dr. Herng-Ching Lin, from Taipei Medical University, and associates used data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Data set and analyzed records from 1016 women with epilepsy who gave birth between 2001 and 2003 and a group of 8128 women without epilepsy. A total of 503 (49.5%) women with epilepsy had seizures while pregnant.

Read more at Reuters

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