Recurrent abdominal pain : A five-year follow-up study

To explore the long-term prognosis for children referred for recurrent abdominal pain (RAP), 44 children investigated for RAP 5 y ago were compared to a group of controls (n=88). The former RAP patients reported RAP, headache and school absence more frequently than controls. A high proportion of chi...

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Published inActa pædiatrica (Oslo) Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 234 - 236
Main Authors STØRDAL, Ketil, NYGAARD, Egil André, BENTSEN, Beint S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell 01.02.2005
Subjects
Abdominal Pain - epidemiology
Adolescent
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Case-Control Studies
Child
Comorbidity
Female
Gastroesophageal Reflux - epidemiology
General aspects
Headache - epidemiology
Humans
Male
Matched-Pair Analysis
Medical sciences
Norway - epidemiology
Prognosis
Recurrence
Statistics, Nonparametric
Norway
Pediatrics
Relapse
Pain
long-term prognosis
recurrent abdominal pain
Follow up study
CBCL
Recurrent
Public health
Abdomen
gastro-oesophageal reflux
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Summary:To explore the long-term prognosis for children referred for recurrent abdominal pain (RAP), 44 children investigated for RAP 5 y ago were compared to a group of controls (n=88). The former RAP patients reported RAP, headache and school absence more frequently than controls. A high proportion of children referred with RAP have persistent symptoms, with more headache and school absence than controls. The diagnostic subgroup did not predict persistence of abdominal pain.
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ISSN:0803-5253
1651-2227
DOI:10.1080/08035250410025104