Table 2.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of two groups: patients with new-onset seizures and patients with known epilepsy and not new-onset seizures, of 2020 and 2019 year. Categorical variables are expressed as a number and percentage. Continuous non-parametric variables are reported as the median, range and interquartile [IQR]

Demographic and clinical characteristics	2020	2019
Patients with new-onset seizures
N of patients	20	13
Gender (male)	9 (45%)	8 (61.5%)
Age (years)	8(4–12) [4.25–9.75]	6 (4–10)[5-8]
Familiarity for seizures
None	11 (55%)	n.a.
Epilepsy	8 (40%)
Febrile seizures	1 (5%)
Hospitalised patients	17 (85%)	3 (23%)
Admission diagnosis
Seizures onset	20	13
Focal	7 (35%)	-
Generalized	9 (45%)	1 (7.7%)
Unknown	4 (2%)	12 (92.3%)
Discharge diagnosis
Epilepsy	17 (85%)	3 (23%)
Focal	11 (64.7%)	2 (66.7)
Generalized	4 (23.5%)	1 (33.3%)
Combined focal and generalized	1 (5.9%)	-
Unknown	1 (5.9%)	-
Seizures onset	3 (15%)	10 (77%)
Focal	1 (33.3%)	1 (10%)
Generalized	2 (66.7%)	-
Unknown	-	9 (90%)
Patients with known epilepsy and not new-onset seizures
N of patients	37 (65%)	26 ( 66.7%)
Gender (male)	16 (43.2%)	16 (61.5%)
Age (years)	8 (4-14) [6-12]	9.5 (5-13) [6.23-12]
Familiarity
None	22 (59%)	n.a.
Epilepsy	11 (30%)
Febrile seizures	4 (11%)
Hospitalised patients	20 (54%)	3 (11.5%)
Admission diagnosis
Seizures onset	13	8
Focal	4 (31%)	-
Generalized	3 (23%)	-
Unknown	6 (46%)	8
Epilepsy	24	18
Focal	14 (58.3%)	15 (83.3%)
Generalized	7 (29.2%)	3 (16.7%)
Combined focal and generaized	-	-
Unknown	3 (12.5%)	-
Discharge diagnosis
Epilepsy	35	21
Focal	19 (54.3%)	17 (81%)
Generalized	11 (31.4%)	3 (14.3%)
Combined focal and generaized	2 (5.7%)	-
Unknown	3 (8.6%)	1 (4.7%)
Seizures onset	2	5
Focal	-	-
Generalized	-	.
Unknown	2	5