Non-communicable diseases, sociodemographic vulnerability and the risk of mortality in hospitalised children and adolescents with COVID-19 in Brazil: a cross-sectional observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To analyse how previous comorbidities, ethnicity, regionality and socioeconomic development are associated with COVID-19 mortality in hospitalised children and adolescents.

Design

Cross-sectional observational study using publicly available data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

Setting

Nationwide.

Participants

5857 patients younger than 20 years old, all of them hospitalised with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, from 1 January 2020 to 7 December 2020.

Main outcome measure

We used multilevel mixed-effects generalised linear models to study in-hospital mortality, stratifying the analysis by age, region of the country, presence of non-communicable diseases, ethnicity and socioeconomic development.

Results

Individually, most of the incl

SUBMITTER: Sousa BLA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8423513 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature