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Corona: The largest study to date shows post

2021-10-27T13:14:26.070Z


So far it was unclear whether and, if so, how much children are affected by Post Covid. A large-scale study shows: They too can suffer from long-term consequences after an infection - albeit less frequently than adults.


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Children are also affected by long-term symptoms after a corona infection

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So far, children under the age of 12 cannot be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Germany.

The parents are all the more concerned that they could become infected with the coronavirus and possibly suffer from long-term consequences of the disease.

A new study now shows that children and adolescents can still struggle with symptoms for three months after a corona infection.

But the so-called post-Covid syndrome is much less common in them than in adults.

In medicine, Post Covid means symptoms of illness and health restrictions that persist or are newly added for at least three months after a corona infection.

Post-Covid is often equated with Long Covid, the latter usually describing persistent long-term effects of more than three months.

The analysis, which has not yet been checked by experts, relates to insurance data from German health insurers.

More than 150,000 people, including around 12,000 children and adolescents, who had been diagnosed with Covid 19 in the first half of 2020, were included.

For the cohort study, they were compared with a group without a Covid-19 diagnosis.

It emerged that the corona patients three months after the acute infection received medical diagnoses based on physical and psychological symptoms more often than people who were not infected with the corona virus.

In adults, these rates were 41 percent higher than in children and adolescents, according to the study.

Cough, pain, anxiety disorders

In adults, the diagnoses mainly concerned taste disorders, fever, cough, and difficulty breathing. In children and adolescents, for example, malaise and rapid exhaustion, cough, pain in the throat and chest area, as well as anxiety disorders and depression were most frequently found. In addition to the Dresden University Medicine, several statutory health insurance companies and the Robert Koch Institute were involved in the study.

»This is one of the first large controlled cohort studies on post-Covid internationally.

The extensive database of our partners and innovative methodological procedures allow for the first time reliable statements about the long-term consequences of Covid-19 in children and adolescents, "explained Professor Jochen Schmitt from the University Hospital Dresden.

In order to understand the connections between Covid-19 and the diseases, further research is necessary.

kry / dpa

Source: spiegel

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