Vitamin D Status in Epileptic Children on Valproic Acid; a Case-Control Study.
Conclusions: The study revealed that there was a higher prevalence of vitamin D3 insufficiency in epileptic children receiving valproate monotherapy compared with healthy children. Vitamin D3 supplementation should be given to all epileptic children even before initiation of anti-epileptic drugs.
PMID: 32259112 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Abdullah AT, Mousheer ZT Tags: Arch Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research
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