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. 2006 Jan;77(1):101–103. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.064626

Table 1 Demographic and clinical details of patients.

Number of patients included 811
Seizure type
 Generalised seizures 130 (16%)
 Focal seizures 517 (64%)
 Mixed seizures 155 (19%)
 Seizure type unknown 9 (1%)
Epilepsy syndrome
 Cryptogenic focal epilepsy 238 (29%)
 Symptomatic focal epilepsy 416 (51%)
 Idiopathic generalised epilepsy 68 (8%)
 Other epilepsy syndrome 68 (8%)
 Not classifiable 21 (3%)
Age, years; mean (range) 37 (14 to 79)
Sex (Female/Male) 410/401
Age at seizure onset, years; mean (range) 11 (0 to 63)
With/without learning disability/not known 164/493/154
Maximum recorded daily dose, mg; mean (range) 2267 (62.5* to 5000)
Treatment time, months; mean (range) 16.7 (0 to 41)
Disposition:
 Continuing at last follow‐up 528 (65%)
 Stopped Lev
  Adverse events only 81 (10%)
  Inefficacy only 110 (14%)
  Adverse events and inefficacy 75 (9%)
  Pregnancy 3 (0.4%)
  Deceased 7 (0.9%)
  Unknown 7 (0.9%)
Concurrent AEDs at start
 None 39 (5%)
 One 253 (31%)
 Two 330 (41%)
 Three 151 (19%)
 Four or more 36 (4%)
 Unknown 2 (0.2%)

*Quarter of a 250 mg tablet. Units are number (%) unless otherwise stated.