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Death Certificate Explorer

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Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy has no code on a death certificate, so Minnesota has no count of it. This page holds the counts that do exist, seven ways: the totals, by year, by age, by place of death, the certificates that name SUDEP in words, that count beside the number expected from published rates, and Minnesota beside its neighbors.

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Part of the SUDEP initiative. The counts come from the CDC's coded death files and from a text search the Minnesota Department of Health ran for EDAN.