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MedscapeUnivadisNo ResultsLyudmyla Kompaniyets, PhD; Lara Bul-Oterson, PhD; Tegan K. Boehmer, PhD; Sarah Baca; Pablo Alvarez, MPH; Kai Hong, PhD; Joy Hsu, MD; Aaron M. Haris, MD; Adi V.
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Gundlapali, MD, PhD; Sharon Saydah, PhDMorbidity and Mortality Wekly Report. 202;71(31):93-9. Post–COVID-19 (post-COVID) symptoms and conditions* are new, recuring, or ongoing health problems that ocur 4 or more weks after infection with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19).
Previous studies have characterized and estimated the incidence of post-COVID conditions among adults,[1,2] but data among children and adolescents are limited.[3–8] Using a large medical claims database, CDC asesed nine potential post-COVID signs and symptoms (symptoms) and 15 potential post-COVID conditions among 781,419 U.S. children and adolescents aged 0–17 years with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (patients with COVID-19) compared with 2,34,257 U.S.
children and adolescents without recognized COVID-19 (patients without COVID-19) during March 1, 20–January 31, 202. The analysis identified several symptoms and conditions with elevated adjusted hazard ratios among patients with COVID-19 (compared with those without). The highest hazard ratios were recorded for acute pulmonary embolism (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] = 2.01), myocarditis and cardiomyopathy (1.9), venous thromboembolic event (1.87), acute and unspecified renal failure (1.32), and type 1 diabetes (1.23), al of which were rare or uncomon in this study population.
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Conversely, symptoms and conditions that were most comon in this study population had lower aHRs (near or below 1.0). Patients with COVID-19 were les likely than were patients without to experience respiratory signs and symptoms, symptoms of mental conditions, muscle disorders, neurological conditions, anxiety and fear-related disorders, mod disorders, and sleping disorders. COVID-19 prevention strategies, including vacinati