Table 1.

Prevalence of epilepsy, the Hisayama Study, 2012‐2013

	Number of subjects with epilepsy/total subjects	Prevalence of epilepsy per 1000 (95% confidence interval)	P‐value between subgroups
All	23/3333	6.9 (4.1‐9.7)
Age at examination, y
40‐64	6/1679	3.6 (0.7‐6.4)	0.02
≥65	17/1654	10.3 (5.4‐15.1)
Sex
Male	7/1430	4.9 (1.3‐8.5)	0.23
Female	16/1903	8.4 (4.3‐12.5)
Residence
Living at home	11/3228	3.4 (1.4‐5.4)	<0.001
Hospitalized or institutionalized at a nursing home	12/105	114.3 (53.4‐175.1)