How frequent is epilepsy?
The estimated risk of developing recurrent seizures, or epilepsy, is between 0.5% and 1%, which represents approximately 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 people in the United States. The risk of a person having a single seizure is even greater. About 10% of the population will experience a seizure during their lifetime. This data underscores one important fact: the majority of people who have a seizure do not develop epilepsy.
