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Prevalence, risk factors and behavioural and emotional comorbidity of acute seizures in young Kenyan children: a population-based study
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Background: Acute symptomatic seizures and febrile seizures are common in children admitted to hospitals in Africa and may be markers of brain dysfunction. They may be associated with behavioural and emotional problems, but there are no published community-based studies in Africa.
Methods: We screened 7047 children aged 1–6 years (randomly sampled from 50,000 in the community) for seizures (using seven questions) and invited those who screened positive and a proportion of...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 35
- Pages:
- 1-12
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-02-09
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- ISSN:
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1741-7015
- Source identifiers:
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827326
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- pubs:827326
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- 2018-03-02
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- © Kariuki, et al 2018
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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