MedPage Today August 21, 2024
— While 14 symptoms were common in both groups, differences also emerged
More than a dozen long COVID symptoms overlapped between school-age kids and adolescents, yet differences did emerge in a large longitudinal observational study of U.S. children.
In models adjusted for sex, race, and ethnicity, 14 prolonged symptoms in kids ages 6-11 years and adolescents ages 12-17 years were more common in those with a history of COVID-19 compared with those without a history, with four distinct symptom phenotypes in school-age children and three in adolescents, reported Rachel Gross, MD, of NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, and colleagues in JAMA.
Researchers identified 18 prolonged symptoms that were more common in school-age children, including headache (57%),...
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