title: [Fear of Heights in Primary School Children].
abstract: The life-time prevalence of visual height intolerance in adults is 28 percent, whereas in primary school children, as recently shown, it develops in 34 percent. Triggers and symptoms are similar in children and adults. A significant difference in visual height intolerance of prepubertal children compared to adults is the good prognosis with mostly spontaneous remission within a few years, possibly facilitated by repeated exposure to the triggering situations.
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authors.lastname: Huppert
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D015995:Prevalence; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous