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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2013 Jan 18;18(4):398–402. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12064

Table 4.

Risk Factor Analysis for Brain MRI Abnormalities

Characteristics Abnormal MRI (n=15) Normal MRI (n=81) p-value

Age 12.1 (mean yrs) 11.9 (mean yrs) 0.71

Sex (male) 8 (53%) 34 (42%) 0.42

History of problem pregnancy 0 4 (5%) 0.76
History of problem birth 2 (13%) 4 (5%) 0.23
History of illness with coma 1 (14%) 4 (5%) 0.32
History of growth/weight problems 0 2 (3%) 0.71
History of Hospitalization 5 (33%) 25 (31%) 0.53
History of seizure 2 (13%) 6 (7%) 0.36
Abnormal NESS 1 (7%) 6 (7%) 0.70

Housing quality 7.5 6.3 0.23