ArticleAnales de pediatria2022
Clinical characteristics and mortality risk factors in patients aged less than 18 years with COVID-19 in Mexico and Mexico City.
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- Risk Factors for Pediatric Critical COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society · 2024Pooled it
- IPNA clinical practice recommendations on care of pediatric patients with pre-existing kidney disease during seasonal outbreak of COVID-19.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Review
- Risk Factors for Pediatric Critical COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Factors Associated with Adverse Outcomes among SARS-CoV-2 Positive Children in a Tertiary Government COVID-19 Referral Hospital in the Philippines.Acta medica Philippina · 2024Article
- Epidemiological characterization of COVID-19 in children under 18 years old in Mexico: an analysis of the pandemic.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionIn the paediatric population, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is usually asymptomatic or mild, but there are also severe and fatal cases.
methodsWe analysed data on COVID-19 cases from the national and state-level databases of the Federal Ministry of Health of Mexico and the Department of Health of Mexico City to determine the clinical characteristics and risk factors for mortality in children. We used Cox proportional hazards regression analysis to calculate the risk of death.
resultsThe national and Mexico City databases had recorded a total of 18,465 (2.8%) and 5,733 (4.2%) confirmed cases of COVID-19, respectively, in individuals aged less than 18 years as of September 2020. The median age at diagnosis was 12 years (range: 0-17). The differences between cases in the national vs Mexico City databases were: 12.5% vs 8.2% of patients were hospitalised; 6% vs 3.5% had pneumonia; 2.4% vs 1.9% were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), and 1.3% vs 0.7% died. The independent risk factors significantly associated with a higher probability of death were pneumonia, hypertension, obesity, immunosuppression and intubation.
conclusionIn Mexico, 2.8% of all confirmed cases of COVID-19 occurred in individuals under 18 years, with a median age of 12 years and a mortality of 1.3%. The identified predictors of mortality were pneumonia, admission to the ICU, obesity, hypertension, immunosuppression, diabetes, chronic lung disease and renal disease.
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