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IBD and COVID: Kids Do Well – MedPage Today
International registry shows older age, comorbidities are risks; anti-TNF might protect
Children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who develop COVID-19 generally fare quite well with the infection, having low rates of hospitalization and little mortality. That was the encouraging message from a new analysis of data from an international registry that currently includes 4,578 cases, according to Michael Kappelman, MD, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Of the total cases of patients with IBD and COVID-19 reported to the SECURE-IBD database, only 29 were in children…
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