Growth failure in children with intractable epilepsy is not due to increased resting energy expenditure

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 439-444

  Bergqvist, A G Christina ^a,b   Trabulsi, Jillian ^c   Schall, Joan I ^b   Stallings, Virginia A ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CALORIMETRY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENDER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GROWTH DISORDER; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

BODY MASS INDEX; CALORIMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REST;

EID: 43949126215     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.02064.x     Document Type: Article

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