Clinical, Paraclinical Characteristics and Relative Risk Factors of Severe Degree in Children with COVID-19: Systematic Review
Authors: Van Dem Pham , Trung Kien Pham , Thanh Trung Nguyen , Thu Huong Nguyen , Thanh Nam Nguyen , Quang Tue Pham , Minh Dien Tran 
Published: July 2022

Aim: systematic review of studies in the medical literature of children with COVID – 19 in order to provide evidence of clinical, paraclinical characteristics and relative risk factors of severe degree in children with COVID-19. Research subjects: A systematic review of studies on COVID-19 in children published in the international medical literature. Research methods: the information of research reports was selected from information posted on the COVID-19 update reporting portal of the Ministry of Health, PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, WHO COVID-19 Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) Database, WanFang Database through system overview. Results: we collected 115 studies related to COVID-19 in children, published from January 2020 to August 2021, and by screening, we selected 21 studies related to clinical, paraclinical characteristics and relative risk factors of severe degree in children with COVID-19.
Keywords:
Variant Delta, COVID-19 in children, Clinical, Paraclinical Characteristics and risk factors of severe degree.
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