Early Prediction of Epilepsy after Encephalitis in Childhood Based on EEG and Clinical Features

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of encephalitis patients in training set and validation set.

Variables	Training set (n = 184)	Validation set (n = 71)	t/χ2	P
Age (years)	7.78 ± 1.36	8.06 ± 1.62	1.407	0.161
Male (n (%))	129 (70.11)	55 (77.46)	1.380	0.240
WBC (x 10^9/L)	9.23 ± 3.37	7.89 ± 2.65	1.614	0.108
NLR	6.06 ± 1.26	5.78 ± 1.57	0.331	0.741
Hemoglobin (g/L)	102.92 ± 24.53	104.39 ± 25.72	0.423	0.673
Platelet count (x 10^9/L)	78.40 ± 61.35	78.06 ± 47.02	0.042	0.966
Albumin (g/L)	29.19 ± 6.33	28.78 ± 6.10	0.465	0.642
Globulin (g/L)	31.30 ± 6.81	31.88 ± 6.18	0.627	0.531
Epilepsy = first symptom (n (%))	54 (29.35)	19 (26.76)	0.168	0.682
Fever (n (%))	101 (54.89)	36 (50.70)	1.428	0.232
Consciousness disorder (n (%))	47 (25.54)	18 (25.35)	0.001	0.975
Partial seizure (n (%))	144 (78.26)	55 (77.46)	0.019	0.891
Epilepsy frequency ≥10/day (n (%))	26 (14.13)	11 (15.49)	0.077	0.782
MRI : Intracranial inflammation (n (%))	109 (59.24)	45 (63.38)	0.367	0.544
Electroencephalogram slow wave/fast wave frequency
Forehead region	0.50 ± 0.20	0.48 ± 0.22	0.792	0.429
Central region	0.40 ± 0.20	0.39 ± 0.21	0.168	0.867
Top region	0.44 ± 0.15	0.45 ± 0.17	0.402	0.688
Temporal region	0.35 ± 0.12	0.38 ± 0.18	1.561	0.120
Occipital region	0.35 ± 0.13	0.35 ± 0.15	0.363	0.717

Note. WBC, white blood cell count; NLR, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio.