Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Med Child Neurol. 2014 Jul 10;57(1):37–44. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.12549

Table I.

Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of the participants with epilepsy and the comparison participants without epilepsy

Variables LRE (n=35) IGE (n= 34) Comparison group (n=62)
Age (mean/SD, y) 10.8 (2.2) 14.1 (3.4) 13.0 (3.0)
Seizure duration mean (SD) mo 7.7 (3.7) 8.6 (3.6) –
Age at onset mean (SD), y 9.8 (2.4) 13.2 (3.5) –
Sex Male/Female 21/14 19/15 28/34
Antiepileptic drugs (polytherapy/monotherapy/none) 0 / 23 / 12 3/ 31 /0

Localization-related epilepsy (LRE) participants comprised 16 children with benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes, seven with temporal lobe epilepsy, and 12 with focal seizures not otherwise specified (NOS); Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) participants comprised 22 children with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, 11 with absence, 1 with IGE NOS.