BACKGROUND Acceptability is a poorly conceptualized dimension of access to health care. Using a study on childhood convulsion in rural Tanzania, we examined social acceptability from a user perspective. The study design is based on the premise that a match between health providers' and clients' understanding of disease is an important dimension of social acceptability, especially in trans-cultu...

BACKGROUND Febrile seizure (FS) is the most common childhood seizures which occur in 2-5% of children. Studies about association between iron deficiency and febrile seizure have shown contradictory results. The purpose of this study was to compare the iron status of children with first febrile seizure and healthy control group. MATERIALS AND METHODS In an analytic case-control study , iron st...

Despite the suggestions of several writers on the importance of convulsive seizures in infancy as an aetiological factor in the development of cerebral palsies, little attention is given to this association in the standard texts in general medicine and pathology, or even in the more special treatises on diseases of the nervous system. It is not altogether surprising, therefore, that convulsions...

how to cite this article: esmaili gourabi h, bidabadi e, cheraghalipour  f, aarabi  y, salamat f. febrile seizure: demographic features and causative factors. iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6(4):33-37. abstract objective because of geographical and periodical variation, we prompted to determine the demographic features and causative factors for febrile seizure in rasht. materials & methods in...

To test whether the seasons of birth had an effect on subsequent experience of illness, details were obtained of all Sheffield children born between 1973 and 1977 who were admitted to hospital before their second birthday with a first febrile convulsion. Analysis by date of birth in consecutive 28-day cohorts showed that the incidence of febrile convulsions ranged from 2.5 per thousand live bir...

INTRODUCTION Dom Pedro II, the Prince Heir and Emperor under regency, in a delicate period of the construction of the Brazilian nation, had convulsive seizures. OBJECTIVE To investigate the convulsive seizures and related syndromes of Dom Pedro II and his family, besides the physicians in charge of the health care. METHOD Narrative review based on primary and secondary sources. CONCLUSION...

BACKGROUND The epidemiology of human parechovirus (HPeV) in Asia remains obscure. We elucidated the prevalence, seasonality, type distribution and clinical presentation of HPeV among children in Hong Kong. METHODS A 24-month prospective study to detect HPeV in children ≤36 months hospitalized for acute viral illnesses. RESULTS 2.3% of the 3911 children examined had HPeV infection, with most...

زمینه و هدف: مجموعة پروتئینی mTOR در پاسخ به تمرینات مقاومتی با رویکردی هیستولوژیکی افزایش هوازی سوخت‌وسازی کاهش می‌یابد. این تغییرات شرایط ابتلا دیابت نوع دو همراه ورزشی می‌تواند قابل بحث باشد. بدین‌منظور لحاظ کردن تمریناتی مانند تمرین تناوبی شدید دارا بودن ویژگی‌های بی‌هوازی از طرفی مداخلة تعامل احتمالی شاخص‌های گلایسمیک هیستوپاتولوژیکی قلب را تصویر بکشد. ازاین‌رو پژوهش حاضر برای تعیین تأثیر ...