Post-COVID-19 Symptoms Among Children and Adolescents
Overview
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. 2022;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, 2022. 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.
Summary
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
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