Epilepsy affects nearly 700,000 French people, both men and women. 10 French people out of 1,000 treated for this disease revealing both social and territorial inequalities.
The prevalence of epilepsy increases with age, and earlier in men (from the age of 40) than in women, mainly due to comorbidities, particularly cardiovascular ones. “Stigma, side effects of epilepsy treatment can lead to greater difficulty in finding or keeping a job for sick people,” illustrates Public Health France.