Table 1.
Demographic and disease characteristics by subpopulations
| New-Onset Monotherapy (N=163) |
New-Onset Polytherapy (N=13) |
Chronic Monotherapy (N=318) |
Chronic Polytherapy (N=189) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female Sex | 42.3% | 46.2% | 40.6% | 48.7% |
| Child Age (years; M(SD)) | 8.38 (3.97) | 8.83 (4.62) | 10.67 (4.75) | 12.77 (5.35) |
| Child race | ||||
| White | 46.0% | 46.2% | 21.4% | 48.1% |
| African American | 8.0% | 69.2% | 5.3% | 5.3% |
| Asian | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 2.1% |
| American Indian | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5% |
| Other | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.9% | 1.1% |
| Bi-racial | 3.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5% |
| Missing | 41.1% | 30.8% | 72.0% | 42.3% |
| Child Ethnicity | ||||
| Hispanic | 1.8% | 69.2% | 0.3% | 1.6% |
| Non-Hispanic | 56.4% | 0.0% | 27.7% | 56.1% |
| Missing | 58.3% | 30.8% | 28.0% | 42.3% |
| Seizure Type | ||||
| Focal | 58.3% | 61.5% | 67.9% | 59.8% |
| Generalized | 29.4% | 30.8% | 25.8% | 25.9% |
| Both | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 4.2% |
| Unclassified | 12.3% | 7.7% | 4.4% | 9.5% |
| Time since seizure onset (years; M(SD)) | 0.42 (.24) | 0.48 (.25) | 10.67 (4.75) | 7.82 (5.19) |
| Number of AEDs M(SD) | 1 (0) | 2.3 (.63) | 1 (0) | 2.35 (.62) |
| AED initiated or changed in past month | 26.4% | 15.4% | 5.0% | 4.2% |