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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Neurol. 2017 Jun 27;75:73–79. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2017.06.011

TABLE 1.

Demographic and Clinical Details of N = 495 Children With New-Onset, Nonsyndromic Early-Life Epilepsy*

Total sample 495
Sex 252 (50.9%) male
Age at onset
  <6 months 177 (35.8%)
  6 to <12 months 85 (17.2%)
  12 to 23 months 132 (26.7%)
  ≥24 months 101 (20.4%)
Presentation of epilepsy
  Focal 260 (52.5%)
  Generalized 149 (30.1%)
  Mixed/uncertain 86 (17.4%)
History of neonatal seizures 23 (4.6%)
History of febrile seizures 72 (14.6%)
History of prematurity 108 (21.8%)
  <30 weeks gestation 12 (2.5%)
  30 to 36 weeks gestation 96 (19.7%)
  ≥37 weeks gestation 376 (77.2%)
Insurance
  Public 235 (47.5%)
  Private 213 (43.0%)
  Self-pay, uninsured, or unknown 47 (9.1%)
Race
  Caucasian 295 (59.6%)
  Black/African American 60 (12.1%)
  Asian 20 (4.0%)
  Other 64 (12.9%)
  Unknown 56 (11.3%)
Ethnicity
  Hispanic 76 (15.4%)
  Non-Hispanic 299 (60.4%)
  Unknown 120 (24.2%)
Distance from epilepsy center
  Same city 87 (17.6%)
  Within 100 miles 345 (69.7%)
  101 to 499 miles 57 (11.5%)
  >500 miles 6 (1.2%)
*

Data are presented as n (%).