Language
English
Publication Date
6-1-2022
Journal
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
DOI
10.1097/INF.0000000000003511
PMID
35537132
PMCID
PMC9083307
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
5-6-2022
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Abstract
Social constructs are known risk factors for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. A review of 206 patients demonstrated that children who were non-Hispanic Black, over the age of 12 years or living in a disadvantaged neighborhood associated with severe multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (intensive care unit admission, intubation and/or vasopressor use).
Keywords
COVID-19, Child, Hospitalization, Humans, Intensive Care Units, Residence Characteristics, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, coronavirus, coronavirus disease 2019, ethnicity, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, race, socioeconomic
Published Open-Access
yes
Recommended Citation
Savorgnan, Fabio; Acosta, Sebastian; Alali, Alexander; et al., "Social and Demographic Disparities in the Severity of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children" (2022). Faculty and Staff Publications. 2950.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/baylor_docs/2950
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