{"id":544,"date":"2022-09-28T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=544"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:37","slug":"association-of-sars-cov-2-seropositivity-with-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-and-or-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-among-children-and-adolescents-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/09\/28\/association-of-sars-cov-2-seropositivity-with-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-and-or-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-among-children-and-adolescents-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and\/or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Among Children and Adolescents in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2796733\">JAMA<\/a> &#8211; <strong>Question<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Is SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity associated with symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis and\/or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) in children and adolescents?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Findings<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;This cross-sectional study of hospital-based SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence surveys in Germany compared seropositive and seronegative children and adolescents and identified an excess of possible ME\/CFS symptoms with serological evidence of preceding SARS-CoV-2 infection. This association almost disappeared with adjustment for confounders and restriction to children and adolescents unaware of preceding infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meaning<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;These findings suggest that the risk of ME\/CFS after SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents may be small and that recall bias may contribute to risk estimates.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMA &#8211; Question\u00a0\u00a0Is SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity associated with symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis and\/or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) in children and adolescents? Findings&nbsp;&nbsp;This cross-sectional study of hospital-based SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence surveys in Germany compared seropositive and seronegative children and adolescents and identified an excess of possible ME\/CFS symptoms with serological evidence of preceding SARS-CoV-2 infection. This association almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-published-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}