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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Neurol. 2021 Apr 23;122:27–34. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2021.04.008

Table 1:

Demographic Breakdown of E-diary and vEEG Cohorts

E-diary Cohort (N = 314) E-diary Subset Under 1
Year (N = 86)
vEEG Cohort (N = 9)
Factor n (%) n (%) n (%)
Sex
Female 162 (51.6) 41 (47.7) 5 (51.6)
Male 146 (46.5) 45 (52.3) 4 (44.4)
Undisclosed 6 (1.9) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Age of onseta (years) 2.8 [0.9-12.4] 0.52 [0.40-0.75] 0.6 [0.51-0.88]
Underlying Condition
Congenital Syndrome 119 (37.9) 36 (41.9) 2 (22.2)
Other 45 (14.3) 10 (11.6) 1 (11.1)
Tuberous Sclerosis 30 (9.6) 14 (16.3) 0 (0)
Lennox-Gastaut 13 (4.1) 0 (0) 1 (11.1)
Aicardi 18 (5.7) 9 (10.5) 0 (0)
Rett 4 (1.3) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Dravet 3 (1.0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Down 2 (0.6) 2 (2.3) 0 (0)
Phelan-McDermid 1 (0.3) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Hypothalamic Hamartoma 1 (0.3) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Angelman Syndrome 1 (0.3) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Sturge-Weber 1 (0.3) 1 (1.2) 0 (0)
Stroke 9 (2.9) 4 (4.7) 3 (33.3)
Metabolic Disorder 5 (1.6) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Infection 12 (3.8) 1 (1.2) 0 (0)
Perinatal Hypoxia 7 (2.2) 2 (2.3) 3 (33.3)
Maternal Drug Abuse 4 (1.3) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Brain Malformations 39 (12.4) 18 (20.9) 0 (0)
Brain Trauma 25 (8.0) 6 (7.0) 0 (0)
Electrolyte Disturbance 1 (0.3) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Medication Usage b,c
Unique Meds per Childa 2 [0-3] 2 [0-3] 0 [0-1]
Levetiracetam 83 (26.4) 24 (27.9) 2 (22.2)
Topiramate 59 (18.8) 22 (25.6) 0 (0)
Vigabatrin 56 (17.8) 30 (34.9) 1 (11.1)
Valproic acid 48 (15.3) 5 (5.8) 0 (0)
Clobazam 48 (15.3) 9 (10.5) 0 (0)
Lamotrigine 40 (12.7) 1 (1.2) 0 (0)
a

These data are depicted as median [IQR]

b

These are the top six most commonly reported meds in the e-diary cohort

c

vEEG cohort data consists of neuroactive medications at time of epileptic spasms diagnosis