TY - JOUR
AU - Pinto Pereira, Snehal M.
AU - Mensah, Anna A.
AU - Nugawela, Manjula D.
AU - Stephenson, Terence
AU - Ladhani, Shamez N.
AU - Dalrymple, Emma
AU - Dudley, Jake
AU - McOwat, Kelsey
AU - Simmons, Ruth
AU - Heyman, Isobel
AU - Segal, Terry
AU - Semple, Malcolm G.
AU - Xu, Laila
AU - Shafran, Roz
PY - 2023
DA - May
TI - Long COVID in Children and Young after Infection or Reinfection with the Omicron Variant:A Prospective Observational Study
JO - Journal of Pediatrics
VL - 259
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113463
AB - To describe the prevalence of long COVID in children infected for the first time (n = 332) or reinfected (n = 243) with Omicron compared with test-negative children (n = 311). Overall, 12%-16% of those infected with Omicron met the research definition of long COVID at 3 and 6 months after infection, with no evidence of difference between cases of first positive and reinfected (Pχ2= 0.17).
PB - Elsevier
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/4be4db54-3865-499a-8bea-9402b80d9a54
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Children, young people and families
ER