Prevalence of seizures and associated factors in children under five living in a deprived municipality of southern Brazil Prevalência de convulsões e fatores associados em crianças menores de cinco anos em município pobre do sul do Brasil

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency and distribution of seizure in children under five, living in a deprived community. METHOD: This was a cross-sectional study, conducted in a probabilistic sample of 487 children aged 5 or less, resident in the rural and urban areas of São José do Norte, a poor m...

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Main Authors: Cheple Roberto Abib, Raúl A. Mendoza-Sassi, Jaime Bech-Nappi, Airton Tetelbom Stein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2007-09-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2007000400006