A risk group's visits to medical services: five years' usage of well-baby and medical clinics by a group of children with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency.
Visits to medical services during the first 5 years of life for 61 children with alpha 1ATD (but without liver disease) and 61 demographically similar control children without ATD were studied for frequency, diagnosis, severity of illness/complaint and extent of treatment. No significant differences were found between the ATD and control groups on any of these variables, suggesting no increased sickliness in the ATD-group and no evidence of increased parental anxiety about the child's health reflected in medical visits for little or no physical abnormality.
D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000209:etiology; D012306:Risk; D019896:alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency