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Carbamazepine versus valproate monotherapy for epilepsy

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2000
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Title
Carbamazepine versus valproate monotherapy for epilepsy
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2000
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd001030
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Authors

Anthony G Marson, Paula R Williamson, Jane L Hutton, Helen E Clough, David W Chadwick

Abstract

Carbamazepine and valproate are drugs of first choice for epilepsy. Despite the lack of hard evidence from individual randomized controlled trials, there is strong clinical belief that valproate is the drug of choice for generalized epilepsies and carbamazepine for partial epilepsies. To overview the best evidence comparing carbamazepine and valproate monotherapy Our search strategy included: (a) MEDLINE 1966-99, (b) The Cochrane Library 1999 issue 4, (c) The trial register of the Cochrane Epilepsy Group (d) the pharmaceutical industry. Randomized controlled trials comparing carbamazepine and valproate monotherapy for epilepsy. This was an individual patient data review. Outcome measures were time to withdrawal of allocated treatment, time to 12 month remission, and time to first seizure post randomization. Data were analysed using the stratified Logrank test with results expressed as hazard ratios (HR) (95% CI), where HR>1 indicates an event is more likely on valproate. A test for an interaction between treatment and epilepsy type (partial versus generalized) was also undertaken. Results Data were available for 1265 patients from five trials, representing 85% of the patients recruited into the eight trials that met our inclusion criteria. The main overall results (HR 95% CI) were: Time to treatment withdrawal 0.97 (0.79-1.18), 12 month remission 0.87 (0.74-1.02), first seizure 1.09 (0.96-1.25) suggesting no overall difference for these outcomes. The test for an interaction between treatment and epilepsy type was non significant for time to treatment withdrawal and 12 month remission, but significant for time to first seizure. The age distribution of adults classified as having a generalized epilepsy indicate that significant numbers of patients may have had their epilepsy misclassified. We have found some evidence to support the policy of using carbamazepine as the first treatment of choice in partial epilepsies, but no evidence to support the choice of valproate in generalized epilepsies, but confidence intervals are too wide to confirm equivalence. Misclassification of patients may have confounded our results, and has important implications for the design and conduct of future trials.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 90 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 11 12%
Student > Bachelor 11 12%
Student > Master 10 11%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 8%
Other 20 22%
Unknown 24 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 40%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 7 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 27 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 June 2012.
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#6
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