Adverse events of special interest following the use of BNT162b2 in adolescents: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Accruing evidence suggests an increased risk of myocarditis in adolescents from messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines. However, other potential adverse events remain under-researched. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of adolescents aged 12-18 with a territory-wide electronic healthcare database of the Hong Kong population linked with population-based vaccination records and supplemented with age- and sex-specific population numbers. Two age- and sex-matched retrospective cohorts were formed to observe 28 days following the first and second doses of BNT162b2 and estimate the age- and sex-adjusted incidence rate ratios between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Thirty AESIs adapted from the World Health Organization's Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety were examined. Eventually, th

SUBMITTER: Lai FTT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8942549 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature