Prevalence, Response to Cysticidal Therapy, and Risk Factors for Persistent Seizure in Indian Children with Neurocysticercosis

Table 6

Comparison between patients with and without persistence of seizure at 1 year.

Parameters	Patients with persistence of seizure at 1 year	Patients without persistence of seizure at 1 year	value
Mean age of onset (years)		10.8 ± 3.2	0.41
Male gender	4 (75%)	42 (55.3%)	0.53
Partial seizure at presentation	3 (60%)	22 (29%)	0.33
Lesions >5 in neuroimaging	2 (40%)	17 (22.4%)	0.72
EEG abnormality at presentation	3 (60%)	40 (52.6%)	0.75

total of 81 patients could be followed up for 1 year.