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. 2020 Dec 4;9(1):2588–2596. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1846462

Table 5.

Comparison of the characteristics of children with COVID-19 by different age groups.

  0 to <1
N = 62
1 to <5
N = 67
5 to <12
N = 140
12 to <19
N = 154
p-value
bMale, n (%) 36 (58.1) 36 (53.7) 87 (62.1) 95 (61.7) 0.649
bTravel history, n (%) 4 (6.5) 7 (10.4) 14 (10.0) 66 (42.9) <0.001
cLength of hospital stay, mean ± SD (days) 13.4 ± 7.8 13.9 ± 7.0 14.0 ± 7.1 16.6 ± 8.5 0.012
bSymptoms, n (%)          
Asymptomatic 4 (6.5) 13 (19.4) 43 (30.7) 51 (33.1) <0.001
Fever 31 (50.0) 34 (50.7) 43 (30.7) 37 (24.0) <0.001
Myalgia 0 (0.0) 2 (3.3) 4 (2.9) 13 (8.6) 0.026
Runny nosea 2 (25.0) 7 (33.3) 6 (13.3) 23 (22.1) 0.306
Stuffy nosea 2 (25.0) 2 (9.5) 0 (0.0) 13 (12.5) 0.046
Ageusiaa 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 2 (4.5) 12 (11.7) 0.316
Anosmiaa 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 1 (2.3) 10 (9.7) 0.273
Dizziness 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 2 (1.5) 2 (1.3) 0.647
Cough 43 (69.4) 30 (44.8) 50 (35.7) 53 (34.6) <0.001
Sputum 11 (17.7) 5 (7.5) 16 (11.4) 31 (20.3) 0.044
Diarrhea 8 (12.9) 6 (9.0) 7 (5.0) 13 (8.5) 0.279
Abdominal paina 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 7 (5.0) 5 (3.3) 0.127
Vomitinga 1 (12.5) 0 (0.0) 1 (2.2) 5 (4.8) 0.396

Note: Bold values represent p-value <0.05.

a

Data from Wuhan was not available.

b

Chi-square test was used

c

One-way analysis of variances was used.