Global, regional, and national burden of epilepsy, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Feigin, V. L., Vos, T., Nair, B. S., Hay, S. I., Abate, Y. H., Abd Al Magied, A. H. A., Abd ElHafeez, S., Abdelkader, A., Abdollahifar, M.-A., Abdullahi, A., Aboagye, R. G., Abreu, L. G., Abu Rumeileh, S., Abualruz, H., Aburuz, S., Abu-Zaid, A., Addo, I. Y., Adedoyin, R. A., Adepoju, A. V., … Murray, C. J. L. (2025). Global, regional, and national burden of epilepsy, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Public Health, 10(3), e203–e227. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(24)00302-5
Authors:
Valery L. Feigin
Theo Vos
Balakrishnan Sukumaran Nair
Simon I. Hay
Yohannes Habtegiorgis Abate
Abdallah H. A. Abd Al Magied
Samar Abd ElHafeez
Atef Abdelkader
Mohammad-Amin Abdollahifar
Auwal Abdullahi
Richard Gyan Aboagye
Lucas Guimarães Abreu
Samir Abu Rumeileh
Hasan Abualruz
Salahdein Aburuz
Ahmed Abu-Zaid
Isaac Yeboah Addo
Rufus Adesoji Adedoyin
Abiola Victor Adepoju
Muhammad Sohail Afzal
Saira Afzal
Aqeel Ahmad
Sajjad Ahmad
Tauseef Ahmad
Ali Ahmadi
Amir Mahmoud Ahmadzade
Ayman Ahmed
Haroon Ahmed
Mehrunnisha Sharif Ahmed
Muktar Beshir Ahmed
Salah Al Awaidy
Omar Al Omari
Yazan Al-Ajlouni
Mohammed Albashtawy
Bassam Al-Fatly
Abdelazeem M. Algammal
Abid Ali
Mohammed Usman Ali
Syed Shujait Ali
Waad Ali
Sheikh Mohammad Alif
Joseph Uy Almazan
Najim Z. Alshahrani
Awais Altaf
Mohammad Al-Wardat
Yaser Mohammed Al-Worafi
Hany Aly
Karem H. Alzoubi
Sohrab Amiri
Robert Ancuceanu
Dhanalakshmi Angappan
Mohammed Tahir Ansari
Saeid Anvari
Anayochukwu Edward Anyasodor
Jalal Arabloo
Mosab Arafat
Aleksandr Y. Aravkin
Brhane Berhe Aregawi
Abdulfatai Aremu
Maha Moh'd Wahbi Atout
Alok Atreya
Avinash Aujayeb
Setognal Birara Aychiluhm
Shahkaar Aziz
Ahmed Y. Azzam
Ashish D. Badiye
Ruhai Bai
Atif Amin Baig
Shankar M. Bakkannavar
Soham Bandyopadhyay
Indrajit Banerjee
Mainak Bardhan
Suzanne Lyn Barker-Collo
Amadou Barrow
Zarrin Basharat
Azadeh Bashiri
Afisu Basiru
Mohammad-Mahdi Bastan
Sai Batchu
Babak Behnam
Diana Fernanda Bejarano Ramirez
Maryam Bemanalizadeh
Kebede A. Beyene
Devidas S. Bhagat
Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula
Sonu Bhaskar
Ajay Nagesh Bhat
Gurjit Kaur Bhatti
Jasvinder Singh Bhatti
Mohiuddin Ahmed Bhuiyan
Soumitra S. Bhuyan
Cem Bilgin
Francesca Bisulli
Archith Boloor
Sri Harsha Boppana
Souad Bouaoud
Yasser Bustanji
Mehtap Çakmak Barsbay
Felix Carvalho
Joao Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia
Rama Mohan Chandika
Vijay Kumar Chattu
Anis Ahmad Chaudhary
Patrick R. Ching
Hitesh Chopra
Dinh-Toi Chu
Hongyuan Chu
Samuele Cortese
Paolo Angelo Cortesi
Natalia Cruz-Martins
Omid Dadras
Xiaochen Dai
Emanuele D'Amico
Lalit Dandona
Rakhi Dandona
Samuel Demissie Darcho
Amira Hamed Darwish
Amol S. Dhane
Vishal R. Dhulipala
Michael J. Diaz
Thanh Chi Do
Sushil Dohare
Ojas Prakashbhai Doshi
Haneil Larson Dsouza
Arkadiusz Marian Dziedzic
Alireza Ebrahimi
Negin Eissazade
Michael Ekholuenetale
Rabie Adel El Arab
Ibrahim Farahat El Bayoumy
Omar Abdelsadek Abdou El Meligy
Hala Rashad Elhabashy
Muhammed Elhadi
Chadi Eltaha
Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe
Ayesha Fahim
Jawad Fares
Mohsen Farjoud Kouhanjani
Abidemi Omolara Fasanmi
Ali Fatehizadeh
Patrick Fazeli
Timur Fazylov
Ginenus Fekadu
Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad
Pietro Ferrara
Nuno Ferreira
Getahun Fetensa
Florian Fischer
Matteo Foschi
Muktar A. Gadanya
Yaseen Galali
Balasankar Ganesan
Xiang Gao
Ravindra Kumar Garg
Miglas Welay Gebregergis
Fataneh Ghadirian
Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari
Jaleed Ahmed Gilani
Alem Abera Girmay
Giorgia Giussani
Elena V. Gnedovskaya
Mahaveer Golechha
Mahdi Gouravani
Ayman Grada
Shi-Yang Guan
Sapna Gupta
Mohammad Haghani Dogahe
Arvin Haj-Mirzaian
Nadia M. Hamdy
Netanja I. Harlianto
Ahmed I. Hasaballah
Hamidreza Hasani
Amr Hassan
Ikrama Ibrahim Hassan
Mahgol Sadat Hassan Zadeh Tabatabaei
Omar E. Hegazi
Golnaz Heidari
Mehdi Hemmati
Kamal Hezam
Nguyen Quoc Hoan
Ramesh Holla
Mehdi Hosseinzadeh
Junjie Huang
HongHan Huynh
Bing-Fang Hwang
Segun Emmanuel Ibitoye
Adalia Ikiroma
Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi
Irena M. Ilic
Milena D. Ilic
Mohammad Tarique Imam
Mustapha Immurana
Arit Inok
Md Rabiul Islam
Chidozie Declan Iwu
Louis Jacob
Abdollah Jafarzadeh
Haitham Jahrami
Ammar Abdulrahman Jairoun
Mihajlo Jakovljevic
Reza Jalilzadeh Yengejeh
Roland Dominic G. Jamora
Talha Jawaid
Sathish Kumar Jayapal
Zixiang Ji
Jost B. Jonas
Nitin Joseph
Charity Ehimwenma Joshua
Zubair Kabir
Rizwan Kalani
Arun Kamireddy
Kehinde Kazeem Kanmodi
Neeti Kapoor
Faizan Zaffar Kashoo
Harkiran Kaur
Foad Kazemi
Himanshu Khajuria
Alireza Khalilian
Maseer Khan
Haitham Khatatbeh
Hamid Reza Khayat Kashani
Khalid A. Kheirallah
Feriha Fatima Khidri
Moein Khormali
Atulya Aman Khosla
Jagdish Khubchandani
Yun Jin Kim
Yun Seo Kim
Ruth W. Kimokoti
Hyun Yong Koh
Ali-Asghar Kolahi
Karel Kostev
Kewal Krishan
Vijay Krishnamoorthy
Jera Kruja
Mohammed Kuddus
Mukhtar Kulimbet
G. Anil Kumar
Manasi Kumar
Satyajit Kundu
Ville Kytö
Chandrakant Lahariya
Dharmesh Kumar Lal
Judit Lám
Iván Landires
Francesco Lanfranchi
Nhi Huu Hanh Le
Seung Won Lee
Virendra S. Ligade
Stephen S. Lim
Christine Linehan
Xiaofeng Liu
Xuefeng Liu
José Francisco López-Gil
Giancarlo Lucchetti
Azeem Majeed
Kashish Malhotra
Ahmad Azam Malik
Vahid Mansouri
Hamid Reza Marateb
Miquel Martorell
Roy Rillera Marzo
Yasith Mathangasinghe
Rishi P. Mediratta
Man Mohan Mehndiratta
Hadush Negash Meles
Endalkachew Belayneh Melese
George A. Mensah
Atte Meretoja
Tomislav Mestrovic
Sachith Mettananda
Giuseppe Minervini
Reza Mirfakhraie
Moonis Mirza
Awoke Misganaw
Arup Kumar Misra
Abdalla Z. Mohamed
Nouh Saad Mohamed
Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani
Ibrahim Mohammadzadeh
Syam Mohan
Ali H. Mokdad
Lorenzo Monasta
AmirAli Moodi Ghalibaf
Maryam Moradi
Rohith Motappa
Lorenzo Muccioli
Francesk Mulita
Yanjinlkham Munkhsaikhan
Efren Murillo-Zamora
Sathish Muthu
Amin Nabavi
Ganesh R. Naik
Shumaila Nargus
Abdulqadir J. Nashwan
Zuhair S. Natto
Javaid Nauman
Muhammad Naveed
Biswa Prakash Nayak
Athare Nazri-Panjaki
Gaurav Nepal
Henok Biresaw Netsere
Hau Thi Hien Nguyen
Robina Khan Niazi
Ali Nikoobar
Majid Nozari
Chisom Adaobi Nri-Ezedi
Vincent Ebuka Nwatah
Ogochukwu Janet Nzoputam
Bogdan Oancea
Andrew T. Olagunju
Oladotun Victor Olalusi
Ahmed Omar Bali
Michal Ordak
Verner N. Orish
Esteban Ortiz-Prado
Nikita Otstavnov
Amel Ouyahia
Mayowa O. Owolabi
Alicia Padron-Monedero
Jagadish Rao Padubidri
Sujogya Kumar Panda
Songhomitra Panda-Jonas
Deepshikha Pande Katare
Anamika Pandey
Leonidas D. Panos
Ioannis Pantazopoulos
Paraskevi Papadopoulou
Utsav Parekh
Romil R. Parikh
Nicholas Parsons
Roberto Passera
Shankargouda Patil
Shrikant Pawar
Hamidreza Pazoki Toroudi
Umberto Pensato
Prince Peprah
Mario F. P. Peres
Simone Perna
Hoang Nhat Pham
Zahra Zahid Piracha
Michael A. Piradov
Dimitri Poddighe
Ramesh Poluru
Ahmad Pour-Rashidi
Jalandhar Pradhan
Manya Prasad
Dimas Ria Angga Pribadi
Jagadeesh Puvvula
Nameer Hashim Qasim
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Pankaja Raghav
Fakher Rahim
Mosiur Rahman
Amir Masoud Rahmani
Mohammad Rahmanian
Adarsh Raja
Ali Rajabpour Sanati
Pushp Lata Rajpoot
Mahmoud Mohammed Ramadan
Shakthi Kumaran Ramasamy
Nemanja Rancic
Sowmya J. Rao
Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi
Devarajan Rathish
Salman Rawaf
Murali Mohan Rama Krishna Reddy
Elrashdy M. Moustafa Mohamed Redwan
Mohsen Rezaeian
Taeho Gregory Rhee
Muhammad Riaz
Jefferson Antonio Buendia Rodriguez
Leonardo Roever
Marina Romozzi
Moustaq Karim Khan Rony
Kevin T. Root
Himanshu Sekhar Rout
Aly M. A. Saad
Cameron John Sabet
Basema Ahmad Saddik
Reihaneh Sadeghian
Mohammad Reza Saeb
Umar Saeed
Usman Saeed
Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari
Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari
Amirhossein Sahebkar
Zahra Saif
S. Mohammad Sajadi
Afeez Abolarinwa Salami
Sohrab Salimi
Yoseph Leonardo Samodra
Abdallah M. Samy
Gargi Sachin Sarode
Sachin C. Sarode
Brijesh Sathian
Anudeep Sathyanarayan
Maheswar Satpathy
Monika Sawhney
Siddharthan Selvaraj
Mohammad H. Semreen
Ashenafi Kibret Sendekie
Subramanian Senthilkumaran
Yashendra Sethi
Allen Seylani
Ataollah Shahbandi
Samiah Shahid
Masood Ali Shaikh
Summaiya Zareen Shaikh
Muhammad Aaqib Shamim
Mehran Shams-Beyranvand
Alfiya Shamsutdinova
Amin Sharifan
Javad Sharifi Rad
Anupam Sharma
Vishal Sharma
Maryam Shayan
Zubeda Begum Sheikh
Mahabalesh Shetty
Pavanchand H. Shetty
Premalatha K. Shetty
Aminu Shittu
Nathan A. Shlobin
Seyed Afshin Shorofi
Sunil Shrestha
Emmanuel Edwar Siddig
Gagandeep Singh
Harmanjit Singh
Jasvinder A. Singh
Paramdeep Singh
Puneetpal Singh
Surjit Singh
Shipra Solanki
Soroush Soraneh
Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai
Mark J. M. Sullman
Katharina S. Sunnerhagen
Vinay Suresh
Chandan Kumar Swain
Lukasz Szarpak
Payam Tabaee Damavandi
Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos
Celine Tabche
Jabeen Taiba
Manoj Tanwar
Minale Tareke
Mohamad-Hani Temsah
Reem Mohamad Hani Temsah
Masayuki Teramoto
Pugazhenthan Thangaraju
Sathish Thirunavukkarasu
Jansje Henny Vera Ticoalu
Tenaw Yimer Tiruye
Krishna Tiwari
Vikas Kumar Tiwari
Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone
Thang Huu Tran
Nguyen Tran Minh Duc
Manjari Tripathi
Samuel Joseph Tromans
Daniel Hsiang-Te Tsai
Aristidis Tsatsakis
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Munkhtuya Tumurkhuu
Aniefiok John Udoakang
Saeed Ullah
Muhammad Umair
Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan
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Ravi Prasad Varma
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Manish Vinayak
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Yanzhong Wang
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Charles Richard James Newton
Samuel Wiebe
Christopher J. L. Murray
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