%0 Journal Article %T Correlation of Serum Zinc Level with Simple Febrile Seizures: A Hospital based Prospective Case Control Study %J International Journal of Pediatrics %I Mashhad University of Medical Sciences %Z 2345-5047 %A Gattoo, Imran %A Harish, Rekha %A Quyoom Hussain, Sheikh %D 2015 %\ 04/01/2015 %V 3 %N 2.2 %P 509-515 %! Correlation of Serum Zinc Level with Simple Febrile Seizures: A Hospital based Prospective Case Control Study %K Simple Febrile seizures %K serum zinc levels %K Children %K convulsions and epilepsy %R 10.22038/ijp.2015.4109 %X Background: Febrile seizures are one of the most common neurological conditions of childhood. It seems that zinc deficiency is associated with increased risk of febrile seizures.Aim: To estimate the serum Zinc level in children with simple Febrile seizures and to find the correlation between serum zinc level and simple Febrile seizures.Materials and Methods: The proposed study was a hospital based prospective case control study which included infants and children aged between 6 months to 5 years, at Post Graduate Department of Pediatrics, (SMGS) Hospital, GMC Jammu, northern India. A total of 200 infants and children fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included. Patients were divided into 100(cases) in Group A with simple febrile seizure and 100(controls) in Group B of children with acute febrile illness without seizure. All patients were subjected to detailed history and thorough clinical examination followed by relevant investigations.Results: Our study had slight male prepondance of 62% in cases and 58% in controls . Mean serum zinc level in cases was 61.53±15.87 ugm/dl and in controls it was 71.90+18.50 ugm/dl .Serum zinc level was found significantly low in cases of simple febrile seizures as compaired to controls ,with p value of %U https://ijp.mums.ac.ir/article_4109_536afcbb1a728d974959225a1ad4672e.pdf