The operation of lungs of most children, adolescents and young adults do not appear to be affected after infection with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. This is reported by two new small surveys, one Swedish and one German, presented at the online international conference of the European Pulmonary Society.
The two studies on him coronavirus show that children and adolescents are not only less likely to get the disease seriously. They also have a lower risk of suffering from lung problems in the long run.
The first study, led by Dr. Ida Mogensen of the Karolinska Institute of Medicine at Stockholm University, involved 661 people with a mean age of 22 years, of whom 178 (27%) had SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus antibodies. had been infected with the virus at some point. Participants underwent clinical trials before the pandemic and were also monitored after Covid-19 infection.
Examinations showed that even patients with asthma who had been infected with the coronavirus did not show any noticeable deterioration in their lung function. “Our analysis showed similar lung function regardless of the history of Covid-19,” Mogensen said, adding that “these results are reassuring for young adults.”
The second study, led by Dr. Anne Slegdendal, a pediatric pulmonologist at Ruhr-Bochum University Children’s Hospital, analyzed the long-term effects of Covid-19 in 73 children and adolescents aged 5 to 18 years who were infected with as well as in 45 children (control group) who were not infected. And in these younger age groups no lung problems were found after coronavirus infection, with the exception of those patients who had a severe history of the disease (shortness of breath, fever over 38.5 for at least five days, bronchitis, pneumonia or admission to hospital).
“These findings should offer some reassurance to children and their families. “Only the severity of the disease has been shown to be associated with mild changes in lung function.”
With information from ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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