THURSDAY, Aug. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Post-infection symptoms and conditions with elevated adjusted hazard ratios among children and adolescents with versus without COVID-19 are described in a report published in the August 5 from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, Ph.D., of the CDC’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Team, and colleagues assessed nine potential post-COVID-19 symptoms and nine potential post-COVID-19 conditions among 781,419 children and US adolescents aged 0-17 years with COVID-19 compared to 2,344,257 US children and adolescents without COVID-19 from March 1, 2020 to January 31, 2022. They were identified symptoms and conditions with elevated adjusted hazard ratios between patients with and without COVID-19.
The researchers found that the highest hazard ratios were recorded for acute pulmonary embolism, myocarditis and cardiomyopathy, venous thromboembolic event, acute and unspecified renal failure, and type 1 diabetes (hazard ratios adjusted, 2.01, 1.99, 1.87, 1.32, and 1.23, respectively). ); within this study population, all were rare or infrequent. Lower adjusted hazard ratios near or below 1.0 were observed for symptoms and conditions that were more common in the study population. Compared to those without COVID-19, patients with COVID-19 were less likely to experience respiratory signs and symptoms, symptoms of mental disorders, muscle disorders, neurological conditions, anxiety and fear-related disorders, fear disorders mood and sleep disorders.
“These findings can be used to inform health professionals and caregivers about new symptoms and conditions that occur among children and adolescents in the months following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection,” the authors write.
