Sarah C. MacDonald, BSc, of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and colleagues, found that after adjusting for several confounders, women with epilepsy had a more than 10-fold increased risk of death during delivery hospitalization (adjusted odds ratio 11.46, 95% CI 8.64-15.19) compared with women without epilepsy (80 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies versus six deaths in 100,000 pregnancies).

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