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Table 5 Gender differences in diagnostic studies

From: Sex differences among epileptic patients: a comparison of epilepsy and its impacts on demographic features, clinical characteristics, and management patterns in a tertiary care hospital in Egypt

EEG recorded in 578

Total

Male

Female

p value

Normal EEG

307

146 (47.5%)

161 (52.4%)

0.94

Focal discharge

162

79 (48.7%)

83 (51.2%)

Generalized discharge

109

51 (46.7%)

58 (53.2%)

Brain imaging recorded in 377

 Abnormal findings

131

73 (55.7%)

58 (49.2%)

0.33