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Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 5, No. 10, 604-608 (1966)
DOI: 10.1177/000992286600501007
© 1966 SAGE Publications

Febrile Convulsions in Families

Findings in an Epidemiologic Survey

Stanley H. Schuman

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

Larry J. Miller

Intern, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

In a well-studied community of 3,953 individuals under 20 years of age, 142 or 3.6 per cent had a history of one or more proven febrile seizures. Certain families are more FC-prone. An unexpectedly strong relationship was found between children with febrile convulsions and sibs with mental retardation.


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