Table 2.
Distribution of epilepsy and lifetime prevalence of convulsions.
| Lifetime convulsions N (%) |
95% CI | Epilepsy N (%) |
95% CI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age groups (years) | ||||
| 15–19 | 39 (3.2) | 2.21–4.19 | 4 (3.3) | 3.21–3.34 |
| 20–24 | 40 (2.7) | 1.88–3.52 | 5 (3.3) | 3.27–3.42 |
| 25–29 | 41 (3.1) | 2.16–4.04 | 8 (6.1) | 6.01–6.25 |
| 30–34 | 28 (2.7) | 1.71–3.69 | 5 (4.9) | 4.75–5.02 |
| 35–39 | 39 (4.8) | 3.33–6.27 | 9 (11.1) | 10.87–11.38 |
| 40–44 | 28 (3.5) | 2.23–4.77 | 9 (11.2) | 10.94–11.45 |
| 45–49 | 17 (3.6) | 1.92–5.28 | 2 (4.2) | 3.95–4.49 |
| ≥50 | 74 (6.7) | 5.23–8.17 | 7 (6.3) | 6.19–6.47 |
| Social habits | ||||
| Use tobacco* | 67 (9.2) | 7.1–11.3 | 9 (12.4) | 12.10–12.70 |
| †† Alcohol** | 2 (1.6) | −0.62–3.82 | – | – |
| a Medical comorbidities | ||||
| Head injury with LOC | 29 (20.9) | 14.14–27.66 | 4 (28.8) | 26.42–31.13 |
| c Mental illness | 29 (49.2) | 36.44–61.96 | 5 (84.7) | 75.49–94.00 |
| b Hypertension | 70 (12.3) | 14.99–9.61 | 11 (19.3) | 18.79–19.74 |
| Diabetes | 31 (9.7) | 6.46–12.94 | 11 (34.3) | 33.16–35.39 |
| Stroke | 23 (28) | 37.72–18.28 | 9 (109.8)1 | 102.28–117.23 |
| Family history of convulsions | 40 (36.7) | 27.65–45.75 | 10 (91.7) | 86.56–96.93 |
| Total | 306 (3.7) | 3.29–4.11 | 49 (5.96) | 5.94–5.97 |
a
Previous hospital diagnosis done by a doctor.
b
History of hypertension, use of antihypertensive.
c
Receiving or received treatment from a psychiatric hospital or psychiatrist.
*
Use of all forms of tobacco (Do you smoke cigarette, use snuff or chew tobacco?)
**
Drinking more than 14 units of alcohol per week for women and 21 for men [20].
††
Alcohol use and quantity was defined as (mean quantity) the consumption of any alcoholic beverage (beer, gin, stout, local brew) in a week.