Psychosocial and cognitive function in children with nephrotic syndrome: association with disease and treatment variables.

Background: To investigate possible differences in emotional/behavioral problems and cognitive function in children with nephrotic syndrome compared to healthy controls and to examine the effect of disease-specific and steroid treatment-specific characteristics on the abovementioned variables.

Methods: Forty-one patients with nephrotic syndrome (23 boys, age range: 4.4-15.