title: Assessments of blood lead levels in children with febrile convulsion.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Lead elements have an adverse effect on human health. The most important complications of lead poisoning are disorders of nervous system particularly seizure .This study aimed to evaluate the blood lead levels and its association with convulsion in a group of hospitalized febrile children.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this analytic cross-sectional study, 60 hospitalized febrile children with 1- 60 month old participated in the study via non-probability convenience sampling method. All of the information included sex, age, weight, blood lead levels and history of convulsion gathered in the questionnaire. Finally all of data were statistically analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  66.7% of samples were male and 33.3% were female. The mean age was 32.57±38.27 months and the mean weight was 13.04±9.61kg. The Mean and Standard deviation of Blood lead level was 4.83±3.50μg/dL. 10% of samples had lead levels greater than 10μg/dL. 53.3% of patients have convulsion and other don't have it. Blood lead levels was 4.91±3.65μg/dL in children with convulsion and 4.73± 3.38μg/dL in children without it; the difference was not significant (p= 0.8).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Overall, no significant association was found between blood lead levels and convulsion.
authors: 1. MD, Associate Professor in Pediatric Disease, Research Center of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. nastarankhosravi@yahoo.com.
authors: Nastaran
authors: N
authors: Khosravi
authors: 2. MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Infectious Disease, Bahrami hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. aniizadi@yahoo.com.
authors: Anahita
authors: A
authors: Izadi
authors: 3. MD, Professor in Pediatric Infectious Disease, Research Center of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. samileh_noorbakhsh@yahoo.com.
authors: Samileh
authors: S
authors: Noorbakhsh
authors: 4. MD, Resident of Internal Medicine, Research Center of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. cpidir@gmail.com.
authors: Shima
authors: S
authors: Javadinia
authors: 5. MS, Microbiologist, Research Center of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Azardokht_tabatabaei@yahoo.com.
authors: Azardokht
authors: A
authors: Tabatabaei
authors: 6. MS, Research Expert, Research Center of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. ashouri.sz@gmail.com.
authors: Sarvenaz
authors: S
authors: Ashouri
authors: 7. PhD, Epidemiologist, Research Center of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. dr.r.a@aol.com.
authors: Ramin
authors: R
authors: Asgarian
keywords: Convulsion; Lead