Prevalence, syndromes and severity of childhood epilepsy in Cuba
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to document the prevalence of childhood-onset epilepsy in Cuba. In 2008, we used a comprehensive pharmacy registry from Plaza municipality (population 155,516) in Havana to identify all children with active epilepsy treated with antiepileptic drugs. We examined 103 of 108 possible cases for confirmation of diagnosis (final n = 73). The study was population-based study and defined the point prevalence, distribution of syndromes and severity of childhood epilepsy. The prevalence of active childhood-onset epilepsy on December 31, 2008 was 3.1/1,000. Major syndrome categories were focal 77% and generalized 14.3% with 31% considered idiopathic, 43% symptomatic and 26% cryptogenic. Most (73%) had good seizure control and those with worse seizure control were more likely to have behavior disorders, a defined etiology and focal epilepsy. The point prevalence of childhood-onset epilepsy in Cuba is low. It is possible that the Cuban health care system contributes to low prevalence that is similar to that of developed countries.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".