{"id":110,"date":"2023-07-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=110"},"modified":"2023-09-22T20:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T00:41:44","slug":"study-1-in-6-kids-have-persistent-covid-symptoms-for-3-months-after-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-1-in-6-kids-have-persistent-covid-symptoms-for-3-months-after-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: 1 in 6 kids have persistent COVID symptoms for 3 months after infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review today in <i>Pediatrics<\/i> of 31&nbsp;studies published through December 2022 reveals that persistent symptoms 3&nbsp;months after confirmed COVID-19 infections, or \u201clong COVID,\u201d affect 16% of children and adolescents.<\/p>\n<p>The 31 studies included 15,000 children, and researchers recorded more than 20 persistent symptoms. For the first months of the pandemic, there was a dearth of research and understanding on how and if children could suffer from long COVID.<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" class=\"research-citation\">Li Jiang, Xuan Li, Jia Nie, Kun Tang, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta; A Systematic Review of Persistent Clinical Features After SARS-CoV-2 in the Pediatric Population. <i>Pediatrics<\/i> August 2023; 152 (2): e2022060351. <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2022-060351\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1542\/peds.2022-060351<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/covid-19\/study-1-6-kids-have-persistent-covid-symptoms-3-months-after-infection\">\n<p lang=\"en\">It was thought at first that the pediatric population was relatively spared from the long-term effects of COVID-19 after infection. But this changed rapidly with increasing reports and studies of pediatric patients not fully recovering from acute COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-1-in-6-kids-have-persistent-covid-symptoms-for-3-months-after-infection\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study: 1 in 6 kids have persistent COVID symptoms for 3 months after infection<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,26,18,29,30,33,27,11,8,14,31,32],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-adolescents","tag-children","tag-covid-19","tag-depression","tag-fatigue","tag-fever","tag-kids","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-sleep-disturbance","tag-sore-throat","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}