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

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