GENDER AND AGE ASPECTS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY AND ITS PROGNOSIS.

The purpose of the research was to study age and gender characteristics of such epidemiological indicators of childhood epilepsy as prevalence, incidence and disability and to create accurate prognosis. Dynamic epidemiological monitoring of epilepsy in children and adolescents in Kharkiv region was conducted, the prevalence, incidence, disability and primary disability because of epilepsy during 2006-2020 were analyzed and a prognosis of these indicators was created and tested on the data of 2016-2020. The generated forecast of prevalence and incidence of epilepsy among the pediatric population corresponds to the quadratic regression equation. The generated prediction of children's disability for epilepsy corresponds to the equation of both a linear regression and a quadratic regression.