Table (3).
Area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUC) for different variables predicting intractable Epilepsy
| Risk model | AUC – 1 |
|---|---|
| Gestational age | 0.515 |
| Birth weight | 0.532 |
| Poor Apgar score (1-4) at 1 min | 0.785 |
| Poor Apgar score (1-4) at 5 min * | 0.625 |
| Need of active resuscitation at birth | 0.537 |
| HIE | 0.546 |
| Microcephaly | 0.573 |
| Brain anomalies | 0.572 |
| Younger age of seizure onset* | 0.628 |
| Development of neonatal seizures | 0.563 |
| Status epilepticus as initial presentation | 0.545 |
| Focal epilepsy * | 0.627 |
| Focal slowing of EEG background* | 0.644 |
| Combination of all variables | 0.785 |
| Combination of all the variables* | 0.810 |