Bedwetting Linked with Intellectual Decline

HONG KONG (Reuters Health) - Children who regularly wet the bed at night score worse on multiple measures of cognitive performance than do non-bedwetting children, researchers reported here at the International Children’s Continence Society (ICCS) meeting.Dr. Chung Kwong Yeung, chairman of pediatric surgery and pediatric urology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and colleagues tracked changes in cognitive function in 95 bedwetting children. (Cognitive function refers abilities such as intelligence, short-term memory and attention focus.)

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