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Zhonghua Shi Yan He Lin Chuang Bing Du Xue Za Zhi. 2010 Jun;24(3):218-20.
[The analysis of clinical character in different age patients suffered from A-H1N1].
[Article in Chinese]
Zhao Y, Zhang YH, Liang LC, Zhang X, Zhang Q, Zhu YK, Liu Y, Feng X, Ma DM, Tan YF, Wu H, Yan HP.
Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To describe the feature of different age patients with A-H1N1.
METHODS: Cross-sectional study was performed in 95 patients who were confirmed to be infected with A-H1N1 from May, 2009 to July, 2009, in according to their age.
RESULTS: The average age of patients with A-H1N1 infection was 23.44 +/- 14.73. Accumulative prevalence in children and young adult reached 74.7% of total patients. There was a trend that the subclinical infection rate raised gradually from 0-15 years group to over 45 years group. The percent of lymphocyte in 0-15 years group was significantly higher than other age groups, P = 0.039. The average time of virus shedding were 6.5 +/- 2.10 days (from 2 days to 12 days) , and there were no significant difference in diverse age groups, P = 0.272. 13 out of 95 (13.7%) patients presented complications related with A-H1N1 infection, and 4 of 6 patients complicated with pneumonia were in the 0-15 years group.
CONCLUSION: The distribution of age in A-H1N1 infection is markedly different from seasonal influenza, with more cases in school children and young adults and fewer cases in older adults. Flu-like symptoms in children were apparent and pneumonia was the major complication in children.
PMID: 21186532 [PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21186532
[The analysis of clinical character in different age patients suffered from A-H1N1].
[Article in Chinese]
Zhao Y, Zhang YH, Liang LC, Zhang X, Zhang Q, Zhu YK, Liu Y, Feng X, Ma DM, Tan YF, Wu H, Yan HP.
Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To describe the feature of different age patients with A-H1N1.
METHODS: Cross-sectional study was performed in 95 patients who were confirmed to be infected with A-H1N1 from May, 2009 to July, 2009, in according to their age.
RESULTS: The average age of patients with A-H1N1 infection was 23.44 +/- 14.73. Accumulative prevalence in children and young adult reached 74.7% of total patients. There was a trend that the subclinical infection rate raised gradually from 0-15 years group to over 45 years group. The percent of lymphocyte in 0-15 years group was significantly higher than other age groups, P = 0.039. The average time of virus shedding were 6.5 +/- 2.10 days (from 2 days to 12 days) , and there were no significant difference in diverse age groups, P = 0.272. 13 out of 95 (13.7%) patients presented complications related with A-H1N1 infection, and 4 of 6 patients complicated with pneumonia were in the 0-15 years group.
CONCLUSION: The distribution of age in A-H1N1 infection is markedly different from seasonal influenza, with more cases in school children and young adults and fewer cases in older adults. Flu-like symptoms in children were apparent and pneumonia was the major complication in children.
PMID: 21186532 [PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21186532