Postneonatal Cerebral Palsy in Europe: Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics According to Contributory Events: An SCPE Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Postneonatal cerebral palsy (PNCP) is rare and requires large databases to be studied over time.

Objectives

To study the time trend of prevalence of PNCP overall and by cause, and to describe the clinical characteristics of children with PNCP according to cause and compared with children with pre/peri/neonatal CP (PPNCP).

Methods

The Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy in Europe (SCPE) database was used. Primary events (the first known chronological event in the causal chain) were classified according to the SCPE classification (six main and 19 sub-categories). Prevalence trends for children born during 1976-2012 were modelled using multilevel generalised linear models. The clinical characteristics of PNCP and PPNCP cases born after 1998 were reported as proport

SUBMITTER: Delobel-Ayoub M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11997238 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature