Melatonin in Epilepsy: A New Mathematical Model of Diurnal Secretion

Table 4

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients calculated for the EG group. The statistically significant correlations ( < 0.05) are marked in bold.

	Minimum melatonin concentration,	Melatonin release amplitude,	Phase shift of melatonin release,	Estimated duration of sleep,	Maximum melatonin concentration,
Age	0.1717	−0.2894	0.0966	−0.1704	−0.2694
Quotient of intellectual development	−0.1046	0.1315	0.2065	0.1579	0.107
Average number of seizures per day	−0.1871	0.3863	0.3171	0.2454	0.36
The number of seizures on the day before the day of sampling	−0.1287	0.2736	0.3655	0.1898	0.2719
The number of seizures on the day of sampling	−0.1463	0.244	0.4306	0.1619	0.238
Number of antiepileptic drugs	−0.0731	0.0142	0.2922	−0.1203	0.0121
Epilepsy duration	−0.00427	−0.3608	0.1393	−0.1569	−0.3468
Hours elapsed between the last seizure and the beginning of sampling	0.02774	−0.33	−0.5012	−0.1668	−0.3293