Clinical Profile and Risk Factors for Severe Disease in 402 Children Hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 from India: Collaborative Indian Pediatric COVID Study Group.
Kana Ram JatJhuma SankarRashmi Ranjan DasVinod H RatageriBharat ChoudharyJaveed Iqbal BhatBaijayantimala Mishranull nullSushma BhatnagarBijayini BeheraBashir Ahmad CharooJagdish Prasad GoyalAditya Kumar GuptaKrishna Mohan GullaRani GeraShivanand IllaluS K KabraDaisy KheraBalbir KumarRakesh LodhaAnant MohanPankaj Kumar MohantyAmit Kumar SatapathyKuldeep SinghAmitabh SinghSumant Vinayak SharmaPawan TiwariAnjan TrikhaPrakash K WariPublished in: Journal of tropical pediatrics (2021)
Fever was the commonest symptom. We identified additional laboratory abnormalities, namely lymphopenia, low total serum protein and albumin and low alkaline phosphatase. The majority of the children were asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. We found high urea and low total serum protein as risk factors for moderate to severe disease for the first time.