Research Article
Aetiological Features of Elderly Patients with Newly Diagnosed Symptomatic Epilepsy in Western China
Table 1
Clinical characteristics of the study population.
| | Variables | Recruited cases | Symptomatic |
| | Sample size | 760 | 474 (62.4%) | | Demographic data | | | | Age, median (range) | 67 (60–96) | 64 (60–96) | | Gender, male (, %) | 504 (66.3%) | 306 (64.6%) | | Residence, urban (, %) | 486 (63.9%) | 311 (65.6%) | | Age subgroup, old (, %) | 579 (76.2%) | 334 (70.5%) | | Clinical data of epilepsy | | | | Onset age in years, median (range) | 63 (60–93) | 63 (60–93) | | Duration in years, median (range) | 2 (0–23) | 3 (0–23) | | Status epilepticus (, %) | 190 (25%) | 146 (30.8%) | | Seizure type | | | | Focal (, %) | 431 (56.7%) | 214 (45.1%) | | Generalized (, %) | 203 (26.7%) | 146 (30.8%) | | Unclassified (, %) | 126 (16.6%) | 114 (24.1%) | | EEG | | | | Normal (, %) | 194 (25.5%) | 74 (15.6%) | | Aspecific abnormality (, %) | 414 (54.5%) | 244 (51.5%) | | Epileptiform discharge (, %) | 152 (20.0%) | 156 (32.9%) |
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