The long-term prognosis and predictors of epilepsy: a retrospective study in 820 patients

Acta Epileptologica

Table 2 Variables found to correlate with the first 1-year and 2-year remissions in multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis

Variables	1- year remission			2 - year remission
Variables	HR	95% CI	P-value	HR	95% CI	P-value
Seizure frequency			< 0.001			< 0.001
≥ 1 /month	ref			ref
< 1 /month	1.48	1.23–1.77		1.58	1.27–1.98
Number of AEDs at first arrival			0.002			0.008
0	ref			ref
1	0.81	0.66–0.99	0.037	0.75	0.58–0.95	0.019
≥ 2	0.65	0.51–0.83	< 0.001	0.65	0.49–0.87	0.004
EEG results			< 0.001			0.019
Normal	1.00			1.00
Abnormal	0.66	0.54–0.82	< 0.001	0.73	0.57–0.95	0.017
Not available	0.58	0.44–0.77	< 0.001	0.65	0.46–0.92	0.014
Type of epilepsy			< 0.001			< 0.001
Idiopathic	ref			ref
Symptomatic	0.49	0.37–0.63	< 0.001	0.49	0.35–0.67	< 0.001
Cryptogenic	0.73	0.57–0.92	0.009	0.67	0.50–0.90	0.007

HR hazard ratio, 95% CI 95% confidence intervals, ref reference for odds ratio

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