Hair Zinc Content and Its Relation to Serum Zinc Level in children with Idiopathic Epilepsy

Abstract

This observational cross-sectional study included 50 children with idiopathic epilepsy who were recruited from the Pediatric Neurology Clinic at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt and 100 non-epileptic age and gender matched controls. The collected data was revised, coded, tabulated and introduced to a PC using Statistical package for Social Science (SPSS 25). Data was presented and suitable analysis was done according to the type of data obtained for each parameter. • As regards population demographic and anthropometric data, the mean age of the studied population was 8.64±3.54 years and 52.7% of them were males. The average weight and height of included subjects were 27.31 ±11.59kg and 120.69 ±21.93cm, respectively. The mean occipitofrontal circumference was 51.2 cm.