Focal epilepsy

Description

partial epilepsy: A seizure caused by a localized disorder.

Data source
FinnGen phenocode FE_STRICT
Conditions required !GE
Include FE
First defined in version DF3
Ontology
DOID 2234
GWAS catalog 0004263
MESH D004828
SNOMED CT 230381009

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 569 346 223
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.43 0.46 0.39
Mean age at first event (years) 30.39 30.71 29.9
Median number of events / individual 2 2 2

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 41.65 45.09 36.32
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 1.76 1.45 2.24

Associations