The descriptive epidemiology of cerebral palsy

N Paneth, T Hong… - Clinics in …, 2006 - perinatology.theclinics.com
… and reliability of a system to classify gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy. …
for reporting the frequency of cerebral palsy? A fundamental concept in epidemiology is that all …

Epidemiology of cerebral palsy

E Blair, L Watson - Seminars in fetal and neonatal medicine, 2006 - Elsevier
cerebral palsy can be reliably recognized needs to be defined, because the mortality rate of
children with cerebral pathology likely to result in severe cerebral palsy is … cerebral palsy die …

The epidemiology of cerebral palsy: incidence, impairments and risk factors

E Odding, ME Roebroeck, HJ Stam - Disability and rehabilitation, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
… western countries children diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP) are … search term cerebral
palsy with the terms epidemiology, and … Of the 75 review articles about the epidemiology of CP, …

Aetiology and epidemiology of cerebral palsy

P Eunson - Paediatrics and Child Health, 2012 - Elsevier
… More extremely premature infants are surviving and have more severe forms of cerebral palsy
for developing cerebral palsy and it is useful to consider causal pathways to cerebral palsy

Epidemiology of cerebral palsy

C Cans, J De-la-Cruz, MA Mermet - Paediatrics and child health, 2008 - Elsevier
Definition of cerebral palsy (CP) has become more precise in recent years and, even if CP
remains an umbrella term, a simple classification system for CP types has been proposed. CP …

The changing epidemiology of cerebral palsy.

PO Pharoah, MJ Platt, T Cooke - Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal …, 1996 - fn.bmj.com
… in prevalence of cerebral palsy is directly … of cerebral palsy in one health region compiled
over several years, we examined the birthweight specific trends in prevalence of cerebral palsy

Issues in the classification and epidemiology of cerebral palsy

E Blair, FJ Stanley - Mental Retardation and Developmental …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
This paper discusses the definition and subclassification of cerebral palsy, its ascertainment,
birth prevalence, and aetiology. Cerebral palsy is a description defined by clinical …

The epidemiology of cerebral palsy in term infants

KB Nelson - Mental retardation and developmental disabilities …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Half of cerebral palsy (CP) arises in infants of normal birthweight; yet, many fewer studies
seek to identify risk factors for CP in term and near‐term infants than in those born very …

The epidemiology and causes of cerebral palsy

DS Reddihough, KJ Collins - Australian Journal of physiotherapy, 2003 - Elsevier
Cerebral palsy is the commonest physical disability in childhood yet in many … cerebral palsy
was challenged when the stillbirth and neonatal death rates declined but the cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy: classification and epidemiology

AT Pakula, KVN Braun… - Physical Medicine and …, 2009 - pmr.theclinics.com
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common motor disability of … 1 The history of cerebral palsy is
a long one, dating back to … with what is recognized today as spastic cerebral palsy. 2, 3 An …