Nutritional Status as a Severity Predictor in Critical Pediatric Patients With COVID‐19
Gabriela Rupp Hanzen Andrades, Gustavo Rodrigues‐Santos, Jaqueline Rodrigues Robaina, Mariana Bastos Genuíno de Oliveira, Margarida dos Santos Salú, Fernanda de Carvalho Lima, Antonio José Ledo Alves da Cunha, Maria Clara de Magalhães Barbosa, Arnaldo Prata‐Barbosa, Caroline Abud Drumond Costa · 2026
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Whether a sick child was well fed before illness may shape how hard COVID-19 hits. Gabriela Rupp Hanzen Andrades and nine co-authors studied 2026 data from thirty-six pediatric intensive care units in Brazil, covering infected children from one month to eighteen years old.
The cohort held 432 patients, average age about thirty months, nearly half under two years. Growth scores for weight, height, and body mass sorted the children by nutritional status. The team tracked breathing support needs, long stays, final diagnoses, and deaths, then used regression to test whether nutrition predicted severity on its own. The study design, spanning the pandemic's first two years, treats feeding status as a vital sign worth recording in critical care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gabriela Rupp Hanzen Andrades, Gustavo Rodrigues‐Santos, Jaqueline Rodrigues Robaina, Mariana Bastos Genuíno de Oliveira, Margarida dos Santos Salú, Fernanda de Carvalho Lima, Antonio José Ledo Alves da Cunha, Maria Clara de Magalhães Barbosa, Arnaldo Prata‐Barbosa, Caroline Abud Drumond Costa |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |