The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 9 Comparison between epileptic children on monotherapy, polytherapy and control group regarding age, weight, BMI, increase in height in one year and DBP

From: Effect of anti-epileptic drugs usage on thyroid profile in Egyptian epileptic children

	TTT									ANOVA		Tukey's test
	Monotherapy			Polytherapy			Control			ANOVA		Tukey's test
	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	F	P-value	I&II	I&III	II&III
Age (years)	9.465	±	3.929	9.881	±	4.046	9.279	±	4.348	0.441	0.644	0.804	0.958	0.630
Height in the 1st year (cm)	126.849	±	19.535	128.285	±	21.367	126.615	±	21.984	0.145	0.865	0.905	0.997	0.872
Height in the 2nd year (cm)	133.046	±	19.888	134.519	±	21.774	133.263	±	22.204	0.109	0.897	0.903	0.998	0.928
Increase in height in 1 year (cm)	6.184	±	2.602	5.563	±	2.302	6.647	±	2.204	4.127	0.017*	0.236	0.448	0.013*
Weight (kg)	33.908	±	15.739	35.823	±	16.274	35.288	±	19.853	0.249	0.780	0.772	0.875	0.980
BMI	18.438	±	4.216	19.025	±	3.737	18.449	±	5.514	0.427	0.653	0.702	1.000	0.707
DBP	70.592	±	9.164	72.975	±	10.905	68.590	±	7.066	4.482	0.012*	0.242	0.368	0.009*

BMI body mass index, DBP diastolic blood pressure, cm centimeter, kg kilogram, SD standard deviation, ANOVA analysis of variance, P value < 0.05 statistically significant, P value < 0.01 statistically highly significant

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