<strong>Background:</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, some reports demonstrated that children are at lower risk of infection. Though, wi...<strong>Background:</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, some reports demonstrated that children are at lower risk of infection. Though, with the growing transmission of the virus, it has been illustrated that it can infect</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">children. Nevertheless, the features and outcomes of COVID-19 infection in children</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">are still</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">unclear. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objective: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">This study aims to describe the clinical characters and outcomes of children infected with COVID-19 and admitted to a hospital in Saudi Arabia. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Design and Setting:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This is a retrospective </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">study that was carried out in Imam Abdulrahman Al Faisal Hospital in</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by collecting data from patients</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">’</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> records of children who were admitted to the hospital from March to July 2020. The collected data included information on the age and gender of the children, as well as </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">their clinical course during hospitalization.</span></span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Thirty-three patients</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> were included;39.4% of the children aged less than one year, 51.5% were males. Asthma occurred in 15.2% of patients. Asthma (p-value</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Ver展开更多
文摘<strong>Background:</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, some reports demonstrated that children are at lower risk of infection. Though, with the growing transmission of the virus, it has been illustrated that it can infect</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">children. Nevertheless, the features and outcomes of COVID-19 infection in children</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">are still</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">unclear. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objective: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">This study aims to describe the clinical characters and outcomes of children infected with COVID-19 and admitted to a hospital in Saudi Arabia. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Design and Setting:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This is a retrospective </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">study that was carried out in Imam Abdulrahman Al Faisal Hospital in</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by collecting data from patients</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">’</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> records of children who were admitted to the hospital from March to July 2020. The collected data included information on the age and gender of the children, as well as </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">their clinical course during hospitalization.</span></span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Thirty-three patients</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> were included;39.4% of the children aged less than one year, 51.5% were males. Asthma occurred in 15.2% of patients. Asthma (p-value</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Ver
