Abstract:
:Multiple risk factors contribute to cognitive impairment in children with β-thalassemia major. For a more refined understanding of this issue, we attempted to evaluate cognitive function in β-thalassemia major patients and identify the relationship between possible cognitive dysfunction and the following: demography, transfusion and chelation characteristics, iron overload, and disease complications. We studied 100 β-thalassemia major children and 100 healthy controls who matched well in terms of age, sex, and socioeconomic status. All participants underwent psychometric assessment using Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition, Arabic version. The mean Full-Scale IQ and Performance IQ of patients were significantly lower than those of controls, whereas no significant difference was found for Verbal IQ. No significant relationship existed between IQ and any of the assessed parameters. We concluded that Performance IQ, not Verbal IQ, was significantly affected in β-thalassemia major patients, but there was no clear association between IQ and any of the parameters.
journal_name
J Child Neuroljournal_title
Journal of child neurologyauthors
Raafat N,El Safy U,Khater N,Hassan T,Hassan B,Siam A,Youssef A,El Shabrawy Adoi
10.1177/0883073814550827subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-03-01 00:00:00pages
417-22issue
4eissn
0883-0738issn
1708-8283pii
0883073814550827journal_volume
30pub_type
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