The complaints of recurrent abdominal pain, headache, and limb pains either separately or in combination have been investigated in a non-selected population of the children who visited to the Woo-Sok Hospital Korea University College of Medicine froma...
The complaints of recurrent abdominal pain, headache, and limb pains either separately or in combination have been investigated in a non-selected population of the children who visited to the Woo-Sok Hospital Korea University College of Medicine froma January 1971 to June 1974.
Through the analysis of 6,824 children, that is, 3,995 boys and 2,819 girls, the following results were obtained:
All these complaints, either separately or in combination, occurred more frequently in girls than boys.
The occurrence of abdominal pain was 2.28% in boys and 6.95% in girls and reached a maximum rates of 10.66% at 13 years of age in boys and 15.44% at 11 years of age in girls.
Headache was complained in an average occurrence of 2.18% in boys and 4.15% in girls and reached a maximum rates of 11.48% at the age of 13 years in boys and 15.04% at the age of 12 years in girls.
In boys, the complaint of limb pains was in 2.9% and in 3.8% in girls and reached a maximum rates of 7.75% at 12 years of age in boys while in girls a maximum rates of 9.37% was reached at the age of 14 years.
The painful conditions more frequently occurred in school children, first born child, body weight over 75 percentile, and monosymptomatically (86%).
Various combinations of above complaints were noted only in 14% of total cases studied.