Table 2.

Age of presentation and age of onset of major syndromes of epilepsy in 440 rural Ugandan children (258 boys and 181 girls)

Age	General Seizures Tonic-clonic, tonic: includes fever associated GTCS		Complex Partial Seizures: includes partial to general and temporal lobe seizures		Simple Partial Seizures: includes fever associated SPS		Miscellaneous Seizures: myoclonic, akinetic, absence, breath-holding & unclassified
	Presentation	Onset	Presentation	Onset	Presentation	Onset	Presentation	Onset
< 1 year	2	125	5	57	2	9	2	12
1 to <5 yrs	95	91	38	38	15	10	4	3
5 to < 10 yrs	82	17	40	10	5	4	3	2
10 to< 15 yrs	56	11	27	3	5	2	7	0
15 to < 18 yrs	25	14	6	3	0	0	3	3
age of presentation or onset not known	7	9	3	0	0	2	8	7
Total	267	267	119	111	27	27	27	27
(% of total)		61%		27%		6%		6%