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BACKGROUND: There are conflicting reports on whether iron deficiency changes susceptibility to seizures. We examined the hypothesis that iron deficiency is associated with an increased risk of acute seizures in children in a malaria endemic area. METHODS: We recruited 133 children, aged 3-156 months, who presented to a district hospital on the Kenyan coast with acute seizures and frequency-matched these to children of similar ages but without seizures. We defined iron deficiency according to...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher's version
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PloS one Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- Article: e14001
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- URN:
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uuid:2e0dce2c-f5b0-4386-8167-b2e23dea01f6
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103781
- Local pid:
- pubs:103781
- Copyright holder:
- Idro et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- Copyright 2010 Idro et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Iron deficiency and acute seizures: results from children living in rural Kenya and a meta-analysis.
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