Baseline characteristics, management, and outcomes of 55,270 children and adolescents diagnosed with COVID-19 and 1,952,693 with influenza in France, Germany, Spain, South Korea and the United States : an international network cohort study

Objectives To characterize the demographics, comorbidities, symptoms, in-hospital treatments, and health outcomes among children/adolescents diagnosed or hospitalized with COVID-19. Secondly, to describe health outcomes amongst children/adolescents diagnosed with previous seasonal influenza. Design International network cohort. Setting Real-world data from European primary care records (France/Germany/Spain), South Korean claims and US claims and hospital databases. Participants Diagnosed and/or hospitalized children/adolescents with COVID-19 at age <18 between January and June 2020; diagnosed with influenza in 2017-2018. Main outcome measures Baseline demographics and comorbidities, symptoms, 30-day in-hospital treatments and outcomes including hospitalization, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), and death. Results A total of 55,270 children/adolescents diagnosed and 3,693 hospitalized with COVID-19 and 1,952,693 diagnosed with influenza were studied. Comorbidities including neurodevelopmental disorders, heart disease, and cancer were all more common among those hospitalized vs diagnosed with COVID-19. The most common COVID-19 symptom was fever. Dyspnea, bronchiolitis, anosmia and gastrointestinal symptoms were more common in COVID-19 than influenza. In-hospital treatments for COVID-19 included repurposed medications (<10%), and adjunctive therapies: systemic corticosteroids (6.8% to 37.6%), famotidine (9.0% to 28.1%), and antithrombotics such as aspirin (2.0% to 21.4%), heparin (2.2% to 18.1%), and enoxaparin (2.8% to 14.8%). Hospitalization was observed in 0.3% to 1.3% of the COVID-19 diagnosed cohort, with undetectable (N<5 per database) 30-day fatality. Thirty-day outcomes including pneumonia, ARDS, and MIS-C were more frequent in COVID-19 than influenza. Conclusions Despite negligible fatality, complications including pneumonia, ARDS and MIS-C were more frequent in children/adolescents with COVID-19 than with influenza. Dyspnea, anosmia and gastrointestinal symptoms could help differential diagnosis. A wide range of medications were used for the inpatient management of pediatric COVID-19.

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UpdateIn: Pediatrics. 2021 Sep;148(3):. - PMID 34049958

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2020

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medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences - (2020) vom: 30. Okt.

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Englisch

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Duarte-Salles, Talita [VerfasserIn]
Vizcaya, David [VerfasserIn]
Pistillo, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Casajust, Paula [VerfasserIn]
Sena, Anthony G [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Lana Yin Hui [VerfasserIn]
Prats-Uribe, Albert [VerfasserIn]
Ahmed, Waheed-Ul-Rahman [VerfasserIn]
Alshammari, Thamir M [VerfasserIn]
Alghoul, Heba [VerfasserIn]
Alser, Osaid [VerfasserIn]
Burn, Edward [VerfasserIn]
You, Seng Chan [VerfasserIn]
Areia, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Blacketer, Clair [VerfasserIn]
DuVall, Scott [VerfasserIn]
Falconer, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Fernandez-Bertolin, Sergio [VerfasserIn]
Fortin, Stephen [VerfasserIn]
Golozar, Asieh [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Mengchun [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Eng Hooi [VerfasserIn]
Huser, Vojtech [VerfasserIn]
Iveli, Pablo [VerfasserIn]
Morales, Daniel R [VerfasserIn]
Nyberg, Fredrik [VerfasserIn]
Posada, Jose D [VerfasserIn]
Recalde, Martina [VerfasserIn]
Roel, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Schilling, Lisa M [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Nigam H [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Karishma [VerfasserIn]
Suchard, Marc A [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Williams, Andrew E [VerfasserIn]
Reich, Christian G [VerfasserIn]
Hripcsak, George [VerfasserIn]
Rijnbeek, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Ryan, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Kostka, Kristin [VerfasserIn]
Prieto-Alhambra, Daniel [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 09.11.2023

published: Electronic

UpdateIn: Pediatrics. 2021 Sep;148(3):. - PMID 34049958

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1101/2020.10.29.20222083

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NLM317083821