SOME RISK FACTORS RELATED TO FEBRILE SEIZURES IN CHILDREN FROM 3 MONTHS TO 5 YEARS OLD AT THAI NGUYEN NATIONAL HOSPITAL

Ngô Thị Thu Hương; Nguyễn Văn Sơn

doi:10.34238/tnu-jst.5112

SOME RISK FACTORS RELATED TO FEBRILE SEIZURES IN CHILDREN FROM 3 MONTHS TO 5 YEARS OLD AT THAI NGUYEN NATIONAL HOSPITAL

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Received: 04/10/21 Revised: 31/10/21 Published: 31/10/21

Authors

1. Ngo Thi Thu Huong , TNU – University of Medicine and Pharmacy
2. Nguyen Van Son, TNU – University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Abstract

This study determines some risk factors related to febrile seizures in children from 3 months to 5 years old at Thai Nguyen National hospital. Subjects were 85 patients from 3 months to 5 years, who were diagnosed with febrile seizures (patient group) and 170 controls with febrile illness without seizures (control group) were included in the study at Thai Nguyen National hospital from August 2020 to July 2021. The method of case control study was applied, where two groups were similar in age, gender and geography. The results showed that: the mean age of the patient group was 21.2 ± 9.3 months, the control group was 20.7 ± 14.1 months, the age of occurerence of febrile seizure mainly less than 24 months accounting for 61.1%, seizure occurred above 39 degrees Celsius accouting for 51.8%, the main cause of fever in both groups is mainly respiratory diseases. Febrile seizures are associated with some risk factors such as: history of family, iron deficience anemia, zinc deficiency.

Keywords

Seizures; Fever; Febrile seizure; Risk factors of febrile seizures; Iron deficiency anemia and febrile seizures

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34238/tnu-jst.5112

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