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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2015 Feb 3;20(4):546–552. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12456

Table 1.

Studied populations, coverage of evaluations, and minimal prevalence of seizures and epilepsy

Group Urban Migrant Rural
N 196 589 200
Male 89 (45.4%) 280(47.5%) 95 (42.5%)
Mean age 49.0 48.6 49.3
Age range 31 - 68 31 - 89 30 - 93
Positive surveys (all) 46 (23%) 165 (28%) 68 (34%)
Males 15/89 (16.9%) 78/280 (27.9%) 33/95 (34.7%)
Females 31/107 (29.0%) 87/309 (28.2%) 35/105 (33.3%)
Examined by neurologist (all) 27/46 (59%) 117/165 (71%) 44/68 (65%)
Males 7/15 (46.7%) 52/78 (66.7%) 15/33 (45.5%)
Females 20/31 (64.5%) 65/87 (74.7%) 29/35 (82.9%)
Active epilepsy 1 13 4
Inactive epilepsy 2 8 1
All epilepsies 3 (15.3/1000) 21 (35.6/1000) 5 (25.0/1000)
Single seizure 1 3 1
All seizures 4 (20.4/1000) 24 (40.7/1000) 6 (29.9/1000)