FINAL ADULT HEIGHT OF PATIENTS WITH EPILEPSY
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 25 (5) , 591-594
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1983.tb13816.x
Abstract
Standing height was measured in 88 adult patients with epilepsy (39 men, 49 women) who were not resident in institutions during their childhood. No over-all significant differences were found between these patients and the general population of the UK, whatever the age of beginning anti-epileptic therapy. Men with partial seizures beginning before the age of 18 were significantly shorter than men with grand mal epilepsy and than the normal male population. Women who had taken phenytoin before completing their growth were significantly shorter than the normal female population, and men who had received phenytoin before 10 yr of age showed a tendency to be shorter than the norm.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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