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Table 2 The demographic, clinical characteristic and alertness of the two subgroups with right TLE and HCs-1

From: A study of brain functional network and alertness changes in temporal lobe epilepsy with and without focal to bilateral tonic–clonic seizures

 

RTLE-non-FBTCS (11)

RTLE- FBTCS

(11)

HCs-1

(11)

P value

Gender (M/F)

5/6

6/5

5/6

0.886(Chi-square)

Age (M ± SD)

29.091 ± 8.240

34.818 ± 8.208

28.909 ± 6.379

0.138(ANOVA)

Education years,median (range)

15(9-16)

15(9-16)

16(12-17)

0.059(Kruskal-Wallis)

Hippocampal sclerosis (Yes or No)

7/4

6/5

/

1.00

Age of epilepsy onset (M ± SD)

20.909 ± 9.721

22.818 ± 9.527

/

0.647(T-test)

Number of seizure years,median (range)

5(1-21)

13(6-20)

/

0.080 (Mann-Whitney)

Type of seizure

FAS

2

/

/

/

FIAS

6

/

/

/

FAS + FIAS

3

/

/

/

FAS + FBTCS

/

1

/

/

FIAS+FBTCS

/

10

/

/

Alertness

Alertness effect (M ± SD)

0.099 ± 0.034

0.070 ± 0.031

0.085 ± 0.034

0.126(ANOVA)

No cue RT (M ± SD)

688.49 ± 85.32

725.23 ± 165.39

670.69 ± 125.88

0.047(ANOVA)

Double cue RT median (range)

655.17 (455.52-746.40)

632.94 (529.01-1082.13)

518.72 (486.47-708.38)

0.041(Kruskal-Wallis)

AEDs (mono or polytherapy)

3/8

2/9

/

0.611(Chi-square)

  1. HCs Health controls, M Man, F Female, M ± SD Mean ± standard deviation, ASM Anti-seizure medications, FAS Focal aware seizures, FIAS Focal impaired awareness seizures, FBTCS Focal to bilateral tonic–clonic seizures, ANOVA One-way analysis of variance, χ2 Chi-square tests; NA