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.
In total, 930 seizures were captured when seizures from both left and right sensor devices are combined.
Median number of seizures in 30 days before first enrollment.
Patients may be represented in more than one category.
Wristband location may change over the course of an enrollment period.
Seizure type included in the seizure‐specific analysis.