Trends of Cardiac Complaints in Pediatric and Young Adult Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Emily M Ferraro, Madeline I Dorr, Cade M Nylund, Apryl Susi, Elizabeth Hisle-Gorman, Michael Rajnik, Brian N Hughes

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Emily M FerraroDepartment of Pediatrics, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-5821-8053

Madeline I DorrDepartment of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.

Cade M NylundDepartment of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4543-6804

Apryl SusiDepartment of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2580-2563

Elizabeth Hisle-GormanDepartment of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3423-6121

Michael RajnikDepartment of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.

Brian N HughesDepartment of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.

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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Uniformed Services University Military Research Royalty Funds Award

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The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the physical and mental health of all age groups. While many studies have evaluated the serious cardiac manifestation associated with multisystem inflammatory syndrome of children, there are less studies evaluating how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the presentation of less severe symptomatic cardiac manifestations. This large retrospective cross-sectional study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cardiovascular health of patients 1 to 24 years of age by assessing care presentation trends for chest pain, palpitations, and syncope for patients in the military health system. Overall, chest pain had the highest rate of presentation when compared to syncope and palpitations. There was a significant decrease in the rate of incidence for all three cardiac symptoms during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the pre-COVID-19 period. When comparing the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic to the pre-COVID-19 period, there was a significant decrease in chest pain and syncope but a slight increase in palpitations. Overall, our results showed that these common cardiac presentations did not greatly increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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chest painpalpitationspediatricsSARS-CoV-2syncope

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PMID40278197

DOI10.3390/jcdd12040138

PMCPMC12027654

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