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==Society and culture== ===Economics=== <!--Same as section at Epilepsy --> Seizures result in direct economic costs of about one billion dollars in the United States.<ref name="AFP2012">{{cite journal |vauthors=Wilden JA, Cohen-Gadol AA |date=August 2012 |title=Evaluation of first nonfebrile seizures |journal=American Family Physician |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=334β340 |pmid=22963022}}</ref> Epilepsy results in economic costs in Europe of around β¬15.5 billion in 2004.<ref name="NChp1">{{cite book |author=National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence |title=The Epilepsies: The diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care |date=January 2012 |publisher=National Clinical Guideline Centre |pages=21β28 |chapter=Chapter 1: Introduction |chapter-url=http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13635/57784/57784.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216151008/http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13635/57784/57784.pdf |archive-date=16 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> In India, epilepsy is estimated to result in costs of US$1.7 billion or 0.5% of the GDP.<ref name="WHO2012"/> They make up about 1% of emergency department visits (2% for emergency departments for children) in the United States.<ref name="emcna2011">{{cite journal |vauthors=Martindale JL, Goldstein JN, Pallin DJ |date=February 2011 |title=Emergency department seizure epidemiology |journal=Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=15β27 |doi=10.1016/j.emc.2010.08.002 |pmid=21109099}}</ref>
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