Flowchart study design.

<p>Flowchart study design.</p

Cumulative risks for epilepsy and epilepsy with recurrent seizures.

<p><b>A.</b> Overall cumulative risk. <b>B.</b> Cumulative risk according to stroke subtype. <b>C.</b> Cumulative risk according to gender.</p

Cox proportional hazard.

*<p>epilepsy is defined as the occurrence of at least 1 seizure with an enduring cause.</p

Classification of first post-stroke seizure.

<p>Classification of first post-stroke seizure.</p

Recurrence of seizures according to time of onset first seizure.

*<p>early seizures are defined as occurring within the first week after the index event.</p>‡<p>late seizures are defined as occurring after the first week after the index event.</p>§<p><i>p-</i>value represents difference in incidence of recurrent seizures between patients with an initial first seizure versus patients with an initial late seizure, compared with chi-square.</p

Average annual risk.

<p><b>A.</b> Average annual risk of epilepsy. <b>B.</b> Average annual risk of epilepsy with recurrent seizures.</p

Baseline Characteristics.

*<p>Patients with ICH or IS compared to TIA both <i>p</i><0.001. Patients with IS compared to ICH <i>p</i> = 0.62.</p>‡<p>In 0.6% of the patients NIHSS at admission and in 8% smoking status was missing.</p>§<p>Percentages TIA and IS patients.</p><p>Abbreviations: DM = diabetes mellitus.</p