ABSTRACT
In a prospective matched case-control study carried out to determine risk factors of febrile seizures among children in the United Arab Emirates, 84 patients with febrile seizure were identified and were matched with 84 control febrile patients without seizure in the same age range, who attended the same hospital during the same period of time. Logistic regression analysis showed that the age at first seizure, family history of febrile seizure, duration of fever, and height of temperature were the only significant predictors for febrile seizures.
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Seizures, Febrile/epidemiology , Age Distribution , Case-Control Studies , Child, Preschool , Confidence Intervals , Developing Countries , Female , Humans , Incidence , Infant , Male , Odds Ratio , Predictive Value of Tests , Probability , Prospective Studies , Risk Assessment , Risk Factors , Seizures, Febrile/diagnosis , Severity of Illness Index , Sex Distribution , United Arab Emirates/epidemiologyABSTRACT
This report concerns two sibs from a consanguineous Sudanese family with microgastria-limb reduction defect associated with hydrocephalus and agenesis of corpus callosum. We suggest that these cases together with other previously reported cases of central nervous system (CNS) anomalies associated with microgastria-limb reduction defect could represent an autosomal recessive syndrome differing from the classical microgastria-limb reduction defect by its severity, presence of CNS anomalies and its pattern of inheritance.
