The Impact of Sociodemographic Disadvantage on Cognitive Outcomes in Children With Newly Diagnosed Seizures and Their Unaffected Siblings Over 36 Months.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accumulating evidence indicates that children with newly diagnosed epilepsy have comorbidities including cognitive challenges. Research investigating comorbidities has focused on clinical epilepsy characteristics and neurobiological/genetic correlates. The role that sociodemographic disadvantage (SD) may play has received less attention. We investigated the role of SD in cognitive status in youth with newly diagnosed epilepsy over a follow-up of 36 months to determine the degree, extent, and duration of the role of disadvantage.

Methods

A total of 289 children (six to 16 years) within six weeks of their first seizure along with 167 siblings underwent comprehensive neuropsychological assessments (intelligence, language, memory, executive function, processing speed,

SUBMITTER: Oyegbile-Chidi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11972614 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature