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Table 2 Epilepsy incidence in subgroups of epilepsy diagnoses. Incidence rate/1000 person years and confidence intervals after unadjusted log rank test on subgroups of individuals (> 25 events per diagnosis) with ICD-10 diagnosis codes G40.0-9 with unadjusted HR and with HR adjusted for current or previous alcohol diagnosis. *Significant differences

From: Physical Activity Reduces Epilepsy Incidence: a Retrospective Cohort Study in Swedish Cross-Country Skiers and an Experimental Study in Seizure-Prone Synapsin II Knockout Mice

Rate. tab

N at risk

N, event

Persons years

Inc. rate

Conf. int

Epilepsy, G40.1: partial symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures

 Controls

140,919

26

1,003,770

0.03

(0.02, 0.04)

 Skiers

140,920

21

1,009,001

0.02

(0.02, 0.03)

Epilepsy, G40.2: partial symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with complex partial seizures

 Controls

140,919

55

1,003,621

0.05

(0.04, 0.07)

 Skiers

140,920

34

1,008,946

0.03

(0.02, 0.05)*

Epilepsy, G40.3: Generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes

 Controls

140,919

16

1,003,807

0.02

(0.01, 0.03)

 Skiers

140,920

12

1,009,001

0.01

(0.01, 0.02)

Epilepsy, G40.9: unspecified epilepsy

 Controls

140,919

263

1,002,884

0.26

(0.23, 0.3)

 Skiers

140,920

125

1,008,638

0.12

(0.1, 0.15)*

Epilepsy G40.9 excl: alcohol diagnosis

 Controls

140,044

233

991,845

0.23

(0.21, 0.27)

 Skiers

140,574

121

1,005,032

0.12

(0.1, 0.14)*