Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome due to COVID-19 among children and adolescents in Brazil: profile of deaths and hospital lethality as at Epidemiological Week 38, 2020. / Síndrome respiratória aguda grave por COVID-19 em crianças e adolescentes no Brasil: perfil dos óbitos e letalidade hospitalar até a 38áµ Semana Epidemiológica de 2020.
Epidemiol Serv Saude
; 29(5): e2020644, 2020.
Article
in English, Portuguese
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1015986
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To describe the profile of deaths and the lethality of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) due to COVID-19 in hospitalized children and adolescents in Brazil.METHODS:
This was a cross-sectional study conducted with data from the SARS notification forms of children and adolescents (0 to 19 years old) with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. Notifications with complete progression of SARS due to COVID-19 were included, up to the 38th Epidemiological Week of 2020.RESULTS:
6,989 hospitalizations were investigated, 661 died, resulting in 9.5% hospital lethality. Higher lethality rates were observed among children under 1 year of age (14.2%), female children and adolescents (9.7%), the indigenous (23.0%), and those living in rural areas (18.1 %), as well as in the Northeast (15.4%) and North (9.7%) regions of Brazil.CONCLUSION:
Differences in hospital mortality were found according to sociodemographic characteristics and marked regional inequalities.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Hospital Mortality
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Coronavirus Infections
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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Betacoronavirus
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Infant, Newborn
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Young adult
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
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Portuguese
Journal:
Epidemiol Serv Saude
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S1679-49742020000500021
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