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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Med Child Neurol. 2014 Mar 21;56(7):635–641. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.12432

Table II.

Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of epilepsy syndrome group (LRE and IGE) and healthy comparison participants

Variables LRE (n=35) IGE (n=34) Comparison group (n=62)
Age, mean(SD), y:mo 10:9 (2:32) 14:1 (3:5) 13:0 (3:0)
Seizure duration, mean (SD), mo 7.7 (3.7) 8.6 (3.6) ---
Age at onset mean(SD), y 9:98 (2:3) 13:3 (3:6) ---
Sex (male/female) 21 /14 19 /15 28 /34
Antiepileptic drugs (polytherapy, monotherapy, none) frequency) 0/23/12 3/31/0

The localization-related epilepsy (LRE) group comprised 16 children with benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes; 7 with temporal lobe epilepsy, and 12 children with focal epilepsy not otherwise specified); Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) group comprised 22 children with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, 11 with absence epilepsy and, 1 with IGE not otherwise specified.