%0 Journal Article
%T Clinical Features of Children with COVID-19 in Initial Time of Pandemic.
%A Hayashi T
%A Murano Y
%A Muto Y
%A Takasu M
%A Sato H
%A Yagisawa H
%A Oshima K
%A Miyazaki N
%A Adachi T
%A Hisata K
%A Nakazawa T
%A Rahman M
%A Gilmour S
%A Shimizu T
%J Juntendo Iji Zasshi
%V 68
%N 6
%D 2022
%M 39081386
暂无%R 10.14789/jmj.JMJ22-0005-OA
%X UNASSIGNED: COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) is now a global pandemic. Although children are said to have mild symptom, their clinical features are not known well. We conducted a retrospective study during initial term of pandemic to understand the difference of clinical features including clinical symptoms and patients' characteristics of COVID-19 children and those without COVID-19.
UNASSIGNED: To compare clinical features between children with and without COVID-19, we collected data on children who received a COVID-19 test between March 25th and October 31st, 2020. All data were collected from medical records.
UNASSIGNED: There were three groups of patients in the study sample; patients with COVID-19, patients with close COVID-19 contact and performed COVID-19 tests, and patients suspected COVID-19 but tested negative. We analyzed the clinical features of the groups.
UNASSIGNED: A total of 108 patients were included in this study, of whom 30 were patients with COVID-19, 25 were patients with close COVID-19 contact, 51 were suspected COVID-19 but tested negative, and two were excluded because they were infants born from COVID-19 mothers. The statistical analysis showed that children with COVID-19 had contact with COVID-19 patients had fewer clinical symptoms including cough and fever compared to children with a negative test of COVID-19. Sensitivity analysis showed that fever, cough, fever and/or cough could not distinguish children with COVID-19 from those without COVID-19. As conclusion, children with COVID-19 have less symptoms as fever or cough and the clinical symptoms cannot distinguish them from children with other diseases.