Prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders in children with chronic hepatitis C in British Columbia
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Abstract
Background: Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) in children is primarily acquired through vertical transmission from an HCV-infected mother. The primary risk factor for chronic HCV in mothers is intravenous drug use, which, in pregnancy, is associated with increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children. We explored the prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders among children with chronic HCV in British Columbia. Methods: Retrospective chart review was conducted for children actively followed for HCV at our centre between December 2020 and April 2024. Data were collected on demographic and clinical information including diagnoses of neurodevelopmental disorders and other learning difficulties. Results: We identified 29 children under 18 years of age (13 male, 16 female); 28 had HCV due to vertical transmission and 1 for unknown reasons, potentially due to the patient's own substance use. Forty-eight percent (n = 14) of patients had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Among these, 43% (n = 6) had fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, 21% ( n = 3) had autism spectrum disorder, and 14% (n = 2) had other learning and developmental difficulties including speech delay and sensory processing issues. In total, 62% (n = 18) of patients had some neurodevelopmental disorder or learning difficulty. Conclusions: In our study population of children with chronic HCV, a majority had at least one documented neurodevelopmental disorder, representing a previously undescribed issue among pediatric patients with chronic HCV. We suggest practitioners who care for children with chronic HCV may have a role in proactively identifying patients with neurodevelopmental difficulties and linking them with appropriate resources.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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