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Parents of children with febrile seizures are concerned about both short-term and long-term prognoses. To study mortality after febrile seizures, researchers evaluated data from a national Danish database of 1.6 million singleton children who were born between 1977 and 2005 and were followed from age 3 months until death, emigration, or August 31, 2005 (mean follow-up, 13 years). Overall, 8172 children died, including 232 of the 55,215 children with a history of febrile seizures.
During the first 2 years after a seizure, children with simple febrile seizures (defined as seizures that lasted no more than 15 minutes and did not recur within 24 hours) had a mortality rate similar to that of the overall study population. Children with complex fe…