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KMID : 0438219750120010379
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Korea University Medical Journal
1975 Volume.12 No. 1 p.379 ~ p.387
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Recurrent Abdominal Pain, Headache and Limb Pains in Children
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Abstract
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The complaints of recurrent abdominal pain, headache, and limb pains either separately or in combination have been investigated in a non-selected population of the children who visited to the Woo-Sok Hospital Korea University College of Medicine from January 1971 to June 1974.
Through the analysis of 6,824 children, that is, &995 boys and 2,819 girls, the following results were obtained:
All these complaints, either separately or in combination, occurred more frequently in girls than boys.
The occurrence of abdominal pain was 4.28% in boys and 6.95% in girls and reached a maximum rates of 10.66% at 13 years of age in boys and 15.44% at 11 years of age in girls.
Headache was complained in an average occurrence of 2.18% in boys and 4.15% in girls and reached a maximum rates of 11.48% at the age´ of 13 years in boys and 15.04% at the age of 12 years in girls.
In boys, the complaint of limb pains was in 2.9% and in 3.8% in girls and reached a maximum rates of 7.75% at 12 years of age in boys while in girls a maximum rates of 9.37% was reached at the age of 14 years.
The painful conditions more frequently occurred in school children, first born child, body weight over 75 percentile, and monosymptomatically (86%).
Various combinations of above complaints were noted only in 14% of total cases studied.
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