Serum Lipids and Long-Term Antiepileptic Therapy

Abstract

Serum levels of total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), very LDL-C, and triglycerides (TGs) were determined in 119 children with epilepsy treated with AEDs for 7 months to 10 years (mean, 5.8 years) and in 125 healthy controls at the Hospital General de Galicia, Clinico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Keywords

• total cholesterol
• high-density lipoprotein cholesterol
• carbamazepine-treated