Seasonal And Monthly Trends In The Occurrence Of Guillain-Barre Syndrome Over A 5-Year Period: A Tertiary Care Hospital-Based Study From South India

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, April-June 2014, Vol 17, Issue 2 included or not remains unclear from the available description. No objective test (e.g. urinalysis) was employed to rule out concurrent substance abuse, in particular, benzodiazepine use, which has the potential to induce withdrawal seizures similar to alcohol. It has been mentioned that all subjects gave informed wri en consent to participate in the study; however, some patients had delirium as reported in the paper. From an ethical perspective, a mention must be made of the consent from a legal guardian. Table 1 shows mean time interval between alcohol intake to seizure (19.35 ± 35.94 h) where the standard deviation is quite high compared to the mean. Instead, median and range would have conveyed be er information on variance or dispersion from mean.