A University of Calgary-led study has some positive news for parents whose children have suffered concussions, finding kids害羞草研究所� intelligence is not affected by the brain injury.

The research, published in the medical journal Pediatrics on Monday, is drawn from emergency room visits to U.S. and Canadian children害羞草研究所檚 hospitals.

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Yeates is an expert on the outcomes of childhood brain disorders, including concussion and traumatic brain injury. He was involved in two previous studies that provided the data for the latest research.

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The study compared 566 children diagnosed with concussion to 300 with orthopedic injuries, or those to the musculoskeletal system. The children ranged in age from eight to 16 and they were recruited from the two previous studies.

The children with orthopedic injuries were included as a comparison group to factor in other variables that might affect IQ, such as demographic background and experiences with trauma and pain.

The Canadian data was collected from children害羞草研究所檚 hospitals害羞草研究所� emergency rooms in Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa and Montreal between 2016 and 2019.

In the Canadian hospitals, patients completed IQ tests three months after their injuries.

The U.S. cohort was studied at two children害羞草研究所檚 hospitals in Ohio, where patients completed IQ tests three to 18 days post-injury.

Yeates said those in the study were generally not hospitalized, nor would there be any sign of injury with imaging of the brain.

But they are injuries nonetheless, Yeates said.

害羞草研究所淭hese concussions are the sorts of injuries that athletes get, that everyday people get by slipping on the ice and falling and hitting their head,害羞草研究所� he said.

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Yeates said a concussion is different than severe or moderate traumatic brain injury, which can lower someone害羞草研究所檚 IQ.

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