Infections and risk of epilepsy in children and young adults: A nationwide study.

Objective: The development of epilepsy has been linked to infections of the central nervous system, but recently also to infections and inflammation outside of the central nervous system. Thus we investigated the association between infections and the risk of subsequent epilepsy.

Methods: This was a Danish nationwide population-based cohort study comprising a total of 1 938 555 individuals born between 1982 and 2012.