COVID-19 increases kids' risk of gut problems once symptoms die down

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US scientists say kids who've had a confirmed COVID-19 infection are more likely than those who haven't had the disease to develop gastrointestinal (GI) tract problems once COVID-19 symptoms have died down. The team looked at data on more than 1.5 million US children and found kids with COVID-19 were 25% more likely to experience GI tract symptoms than kids who had never had COVID-19. The incidence of GI tract problems was 8.64% in the COVID-19 group, and 6.85% in the non-COVID-19 group. Doctors should note that lingering GI tract symptoms may be more common in children after COVID-19 than in kids without the infection, the authors conclude.

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conference: JAMA Network Open

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Organisation/s: University of Pennsylvania, USA

Funder: This research was supported in part by NIH Agreement OTA OT2HL161847-01 as part of the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Research Initiative.

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