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. 2021 Jul 15;62(8):1807–1819. doi: 10.1111/epi.16967

TABLE 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics for patients with seizures during enrollment (N = 94 patients, n = 548 seizuresa)

Demographic and clinical characteristics Value
Age at first enrollment, median years (range, IQR) 9.9 (27.2, 9.2)
Male, n (%) 54 (57.4)
Ethnicity, n (%)
Not Hispanic or Latino 71 (75.5)
Unknown 9 (9.6)
Not reported 8 (8.5)
Hispanic or Latino 6 (6.4)
Race, n (%)
White 64 (68.1)
Unknown 17 (18.1)
Black or African American 6 (6.4)
Not reported 6 (6.4)
Asian 1 (1.1)
History of clinical epilepsy characteristics
Diagnosis of epilepsy, n (%) 92 (97.9)
Age at first seizure, median years (range, IQR) 1.8 (16.0, 6.6)
Seizure frequency [n = 82], median seizures/30 days (range, IQR)b 32.2 (2880.0, 119.2)
Epilepsy etiology [n = 92], n (%)
Unknown 39 (42.4)
Structural 34 (37.0)
Genetic 13 (14.1)
Infectious 3 (3.3)
Metabolic 2 (2.2)
Immune 1 (1.1)
2017 ILAE seizure semiology, n patients (n seizures)c
Focal onset 62 (548)
Focal to bilateral tonic–clonice 21 (38)
Subclinicale 14 (66)
Awareness and motor semiology unavailable 6 (7)
Aware 6 (9)
Motor 4 (4)
Tonice 2 (2)
Clonice 1 (1)
Automatismse 1 (1)
Nonmotor 2 (5)
Sensory 2 (5)
Impaired awareness 28 (69)
Motor 21 (49)
Automatismse 10 (21)
Tonice 7 (18)
Hyperkinetic 4 (6)
Clonice 4 (4)
Nonmotor 10 (20)
Behavior arreste 10 (16)
Cognitive 1 (4)
Unclassified awareness 22 (145)
Motor 16 (78)
Tonice 6 (47)
Automatismse 3 (4)
Hyperkinetic 3 (3)
Myoclonic 3 (14)
Clonice 2 (5)
Atonic 1 (5)
Nonmotor 5 (57)
Behavior arreste 3 (5)
Autonomic 1 (50)
Unclassified 1 (1)
Sensory 1 (1)
Unclassified movement 5 (10)
Generalized onset 35 (213)
Subclinical 2 (2)
Motor semiology unavailable 4 (5)
Motor 30 (174)
Tonice 15 (90)
Epileptic spasmse 8 (47)
Tonic–clonice 6 (15)
Myoclonic 3 (9)
Clonic 2 (7)
Atonic 2 (5)
Unclassified 1 (1)
Nonmotor 2 (16)
Typical absence 2 (16)
Unclassified movement 6 (16)
Unknown onset/unclassified movement 1 (1)
Wristband location, n patients c , d
Left wrist 35
Right wrist 40
Left ankle 94
Right ankle 59

Abbreviations: ILAE, International League Against Epilepsy; IQR, interquartile range.

a

In total, 930 seizures were captured when seizures from both left and right sensor devices are combined.

b

Median number of seizures in 30 days before first enrollment.

c

Patients may be represented in more than one category.

d

Wristband location may change over the course of an enrollment period.

e

Seizure type included in the seizure‐specific analysis.