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Pediatric Long COVID Subphenotypes: An EHR-based study from the RECOVER program

  • Vitaly Lorman
  • , L Charles Bailey
  • , Xing Song
  • , Suchitra Rao
  • , Mady Hornig
  • , Levon Utidjian
  • , Hanieh Razzaghi
  • , Asuncion Mejias
  • , John Erik Leikauf
  • , Seuli Bose Brill
  • , Andrea Allen
  • , H Timothy Bunnell
  • , Cara Reedy
  • , Abu Saleh Mohammad Mosa
  • , Benjamin D Horne
  • , Carol Reynolds Geary
  • , Cynthia H Chuang
  • , David A Williams
  • , Dimitri A Christakis
  • , Elizabeth A Chrischilles
  • Eneida A Mendonca, Lindsay G Cowell, Lisa McCorkell, Mei Liu, Mollie R Cummins, Ravi Jhaveri, Saul Blecker, Christopher B Forrest
  • University of Missouri School of Medicine
  • University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  • School of Medicine, Stanford University
  • The Ohio State University College of Medicine
  • Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute
  • University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey
  • University of Michigan
  • Seattle Children’s Research Institute
  • University of Iowa
  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • McDermott Center Human Gene Discovery Laboratory at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Central Florida College of Medicine
  • University of Utah
  • Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
  • Grossman School of Medicine

Research output: Working paperPreprint

Abstract

Pediatric Long COVID has been associated with a wide variety of symptoms, conditions, and organ systems, but distinct clinical presentations, or subphenotypes, are still being elucidated. In this exploratory analysis, we identified a cohort of pediatric (age <21) patients with evidence of Long COVID and no pre-existing complex chronic conditions using electronic health record data from 38 institutions and used an unsupervised machine learning-based approach to identify subphenotypes. Our method, an extension of the Phe2Vec algorithm, uses tens of thousands of clinical concepts from multiple domains to represent patients' clinical histories to then identify groups of patients with similar presentations. The results indicate that cardiorespiratory presentations are most common (present in 54% of patients) followed by subphenotypes marked (in decreasing order of frequency) by musculoskeletal pain, neuropsychiatric conditions, gastrointestinal symptoms, headache, and fatigue.

Original languageEnglish
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StatePublished - 18 Sep 2024

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