Impact of prenatal, neonatal, and postnatal factors on epilepsy risk in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Ketata, Imen; Ellouz, Emna; Mizouri, Rahil

doi:10.1186/s42494-023-00143-2

Table 1 Characteristics of the studies included

From: Impact of prenatal, neonatal, and postnatal factors on epilepsy risk in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study	Country/Region	Study design	Epilepsy diagnosis	Patient with epilepsy (n)	Control without epilepsy (n)	NOS score
Henderson et al. (1964) [32]	United States	Case-control	Clinical^a	283	283	6
Maheshwar et al. (1990) [31]	India	Cohort study	Clinical^a	381	372	7
Kuenneth et al. (1996) [30]	United States	Case-control	Clinical^a	78	408	7
Daoud et al. (2003) [5]	Jordan	Case-control	Clinical^a	200	200	6
Asadi-Pooya et al. (2005) [14]	Iran	Case-control	Clinical^a	142	138	6
Krebs et al. (2006) [17]	Denmark	Case-control	Unavailable	290	580	6
Mung’ala-Odera et al. (2008) [29]	United Kingdom	Case-control	Clinical^a	110	816	8
Cansu et al. (2007) [23]	Turkey	Case-control	Clinical^a	805	848	7
Masri et al. (2008) [28]	Jordan	Case-control	Seizure and EEG^b	55	111	6
McDermott et al. (2010) [16]	United States	Case-control	ICD codes	2185	125,563	7
Attumalil et al. (2011) [25]	India	Case-control	Clinical^a	82	160	4
Burton et al. (2012) [22]	Tanzania	Cross-sectional	Clinical^a	112	113	8
Miller et al. (2012) [3]	Denmark	Cohort study	ICD codes	2848	444,781	7
Ngugi et al. (2013) [12]	Sub-Saharan Africa	Cross-sectional and case-control	Clinical^a	825	1031	9
Sun et al. (2008) [13]	United States	Cohort study	Clinical^a	664	89,973	8
Ae-Ngibise et al. (2015) [11]	Ghana	Cross-sectional and case-control	Clinical^a	144	172	6
Cruz-Cruz (2017) [24]	Mexico	Case-control	Clinical^a	118	118	6
Thygesen et al. (2018) [34]	Denmark	Cohort study	Clinical^a	2326	92,700	7
Hirvonen et al. (2017) [18]	Finland	Cohort study	Seizure and EEG^b	5611	1,027,738	7
Kakooza-Mwesige (2017) [27]	United Kingdom	Case-control	Clinical^a	155	171	8
Odd et al. (2018) [19]	United Kingdom	Cohort study	ICD codes	4594	467,038	7
Chou et al. (2020) [21]	Taiwan region of China	Cohort study	ICD codes	21,474	94,720	7
Whitehead et al. (2006) [20]	Canada	Cohort study	Seizure and EEG^b	648	124,207	7
Chowdhury et al. (2020) [26]	Bangladesh	Cross-sectional	Unavailable	55	55	5
Gumisiriza et el (2021) [33]	Belgium	Case-control	Clinical^a	154	153	7
Total	-	-	-	45,044	2,558,210	-

^a, Two unprovoked seizures; NOS Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, ICD International Classification of Diseases, EEG electroencephalogram
^b, abnormal

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