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Table 1 Diagnosis profile of the study population n = 16,371

From: Pattern of neurological diseases in adult outpatient neurology clinics in tertiary care hospital

Diagnosis

n

%

Vascular disease

2842

17.4

Stroke

2792/2842

98.2

Types (n = 2729)

  

 Ischaemic stroke

2277

81.6

 Transient stroke

170

6.1

 Haemorrhagic stroke

294

10.5

 Ischemia and hemorrhagic

19

0.7

 Ischemia and transient

30

1.1

 Transient and hemorrhage

2

0.1

Cerebellar ataxias and hereditary spastic paraplegias

311

1.9

Motor neuron diseases

60

19.2

Sleep disorders

195

 

Restless leg syndrome

87

44.6

Obstructive sleep apnoea

105

53.8

Headache disorders

3058

18.6

Type of headache (n = 1370)

  

 Headache disorder

651

21.2

 Tension type headache

574

18.7

 Cluster headache

29

0.68

 Chronic headache

28

2.04

 Headache due to psychiatric disorder

26

1.89

 Headache attributed to head and/or neck trauma

11

0.35

Migraine

1698/3058

55.5

Acquire metabolic and toxic disorders

13

0.07

CNS infection

314

0.01

Meningitis (n = 248)

  

Bacterial meningitis

32

12.9

Tuberculous meningitis/tuberculoma

162

65.3

Fungal meningitis

6

2.4

Viral meningitis

44

17.7

Symptomatic meningitis

4

1.6

CNS neoplasm

151

0.92

Meningioma

27

17.8

Oligodendroglioma

23

15.2

Pituitary adenoma

20

13.2

Glioma

15

9.9

Nerve and root lesion

2311

14.1

Cervical radiculopathy

369

15.9

Carpal tunnel syndrome

153

6.6

Diabetic polyneuropathy

129

5.5

Guillain–Barre syndrome(AIDP)

94

4.0

Psychiatric disorders

1916

11.7

Depression

1486

77.5

Anxiety

188

9.8

Conversion disorders

86

4.4

Demyelinating diseases

181

1.10

Multiple sclerosis

121/181

6.6

Dementias

460

2.8

Alzheimer’s diseases

211

45.8

Dementia frontal/vascular

207

45

Myopathies/muscle disorders

1734

10.5

Musculoskeletal pain

1017

58.6

Myasthenia gravis

190

10.9

Fibromyalgia

193

11.1

Myopathies/muscle disorders

49

2.8

Neck strain

39

2.2

Polymyositis

33

1.9

Development disorders

81

0.49

Mental retardation

19

23.4

Movement disorders

1211

7.3

Parkinson’s diseases

821

67.7

Dystonias

141

11.6

Essential tremor

89

7.3

Epilepsies

2055

12.5

Epilepsy

326

23.3

Partial epilepsy with or without generalization

629

44.9

Generalised epilepsy

373

26.6

Juvenile myoconic epilepsy

55

3.9

Seizures

591

28.7

Febrile seizures

7

1.2

Seizures vs. Pseudoseizures

13

2.2

Fits

91

15.4

Complex partial seizures

3

0.5

Seizures

439

74.3

GTC (general tonic chronic seizures)

16

2.7

Pseudoseizures

12

2.7

 Non-epileptic seizures

2

2.0

 Post traumatic seizures

3

0.5

 Systematic seizures

1

0.2

 Neonate seizure

1

0.2

 Focal seizures

2

0.3

 Syncopy vs. seizures

1

0.2

Spinal disorders

124

0.75

Myelitis

62

50

Myelopathy

62

50

Others

  

Bell palsy

161

0.98

Vertigo

510

3.11

Encephalopathy

33

0.20

Neurometabolic/nutritional

174

1.06

Vitamin D deficiency osteomalacic

72

41.3

B12 deficiency

80

45.9

Wilson disease

22

12.6