TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarah Khalil Gamal Khalil Mohamed
AU  - Alaa Nabil Elmazny , 
AU  - Hanan Abdallah Amer , 
AU  - Laila Ahmed Rashed , 
TI  - Vitamin D status in recently diagnosed epileptic children / 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Sarah Khalil Gamal Khalil Mohamed , 
KW  - Epilepsy
KW  - Recently diagnosed
KW  - Vitamin D
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neuropsychiatry; Issued also as CD
N2  - Background: Several neurological disorders have been linked with vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency in children with epilepsy is becoming an increasingly recognized health care concern. Most studies focused on effect of AEDs on vitamin D status but fewer studies focused on its status in recently diagnosed, treatment naïve patients. objectives: This study aimed to explore vitamin D status among recently diagnosed children with generalized idiopathic epilepsy and comparing it with healthy control. subjects and methods: The study was carried on forty-two recently diagnosed epileptic children (8-18 years old) and forty age and sex matched healthy control subjects. Serum vitamin D level as well as parathormone level was performed for all patients and control subjects.  results: There was a statistically significant difference between patients and control (p value <0.001).There was also a statistically significant difference regarding serum vitamin D level between patients with higher seizure frequencyand patients with lower seizure frequency (p value =0.004).Patients with insufficient serum vitamin D levels had a significant lower age at onset of epilepsythan patients with deficientor normal levels (p value=0.046).There was a statistically significant negative correlation between duration of epilepsy in years and serum vitamin D level. Both vitamin D level and family history were found to be a significant predictor for developing IGEs in children(P value <0.001) for both.Serum vitamin D level distinguished patients with lower seizure frequency from patients with higher seizure frequency by ROC curve analysis
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