ESPE Abstracts

Background: Refractory epilepsy (RE) is a neurological disease, which affect relatively 20–30% of epileptic patients. Although, previous studies noted obesity as the leading factor for maladaptive processes for exacerbating chronic diseases such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease. On the other hand, enough endocrine products such as leptin by adipose tissue is effective in epilepsy. We aim to assess the effect of BMI in reducing risk of refractor...