Key result
Pediatric PE diagnoses rise in hospitalized US children, driven by higher rates in adolescents.
The rate of pulmonary embolism diagnosis in hospitalized children in the US increased from 2001 to 2014, with higher rates in adolescents and higher recurrence in African American and Hispanic patients.
< .001). Further research is required to determine what factors contribute to the higher rate of PE in adolescents and influence recurrence in African American and Hispanic patients.
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Carpenter et al. (2018) studied this question. Hospitalized children in the United States experienced an increasing rate of diagnosed pulmonary embolism from 2001 to 2014, with higher rates in adolescents (p < 0.001).
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