Non-neuropsychiatric Long COVID Symptoms in Children Visiting a Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinic After an Omicron Surge

Bin Ahn; Sung Hwan Choi; Ki Wook Yun

doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000003862

Non-neuropsychiatric Long COVID Symptoms in Children Visiting a Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinic After an Omicron Surge

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023 May 1;42(5):e143-e145. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003862. Epub 2023 Feb 24.

Authors

Bin Ahn¹, Sung Hwan Choi¹, Ki Wook Yun^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
² Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Although much interest has emerged regarding post-COVID conditions, data on children and adolescents are limited. The prevalence of long COVID and common symptoms were analyzed in this case-control study of 274 children. Prolonged non-neuropsychiatric symptoms were more frequent in the case group (17.0% and 4.8%, P = 0.004). Abdominal pain (6.6%) was the most common long COVID symptom.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Ambulatory Care Facilities
COVID-19* / epidemiology
Case-Control Studies
Child
Communicable Diseases*
Humans
Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome