1. A population-based study of mild mental handicap in children: preliminary analysis of obstetric associations
- Author
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J. Murti Rao
- Subjects
Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Peri ,Neurocognitive Disorders ,Preliminary analysis ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Pregnancy ,Risk Factors ,Intellectual Disability ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Neurologic Examination ,Wales ,business.industry ,Rehabilitation ,Infant, Newborn ,Wechsler Scales ,Infant ,Obstetric Labor Complications ,Pregnancy Complications ,Population based study ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Mental deficiency ,Neurology ,Mild mental handicap ,Child, Preschool ,Etiology ,Brain Damage, Chronic ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,business - Abstract
One hundred and twenty-nine children in the 8- to 12-year-old age group in Cardiff were ascertained to have mild mental deficiency. Detailed obstetric data were obtained which indicated that nearly 69% of the children were associated with adverse obstetric factors. Fifty-five per cent had the combined pathogenetic risk factors of pre-, peri- and neonatal adversities. Forty-two per cent of the cases had non-optimal perinatal factors and 45% were considered to have prenatal causation. There were four children with chromosomal anomalies. The various adverse obstetric influences are discussed separately.
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- 2008