Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in American Indian/Alaska Native Children, March 2020-May 2022

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023 Apr 1;42(4):e105-e108. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003822. Epub 2022 Dec 30.

Abstract

We describe characteristics, clinical features and outcomes of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons compared with non-Hispanic white persons. AI/AN patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children were younger, more often obese, and from areas of higher social vulnerability. A greater proportion of AI/AN patients had severe respiratory involvement and shock.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • American Indian or Alaska Native*
  • COVID-19* / ethnology
  • Child
  • Humans
  • United States / epidemiology

Supplementary concepts

  • pediatric multisystem inflammatory disease, COVID-19 related