Prevalence of community-acquired pneumonia among Egyptian children from urban areas of the Delta region: a cross-sectional study
Abstract
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 years in developing countries. It is a common and severe lower respiratory tract infection, and it is recognized as “the forgotten killer of children.”
To detect the prevalence of CAP among Egyptian children from urban areas of the Delta region and to evaluate clinical phenotypes of CAP cases.
This cross-sectional study was conducted for infants, children, and adolescents with CAP aged from 2 months up to 16 years admitted to the Mansoura University Children Hospital from 2016 to 2022. The cases were divided into two groups: either typical CAP or atypical CAP, and their clinical characteristics were evaluated.
Out of the total admissions to Mansoura University Children Hospital, the prevalence of CAP cases in the Delta region was 1.96% among all admitted cases. However, the prevalence of CAP cases from urban Delta regions was 17.4% and the prevalence from rural Delta regions was 22.6%. Out of the children with CAP from urban Delta regions, the prevalence of children diagnosed as typical CAP was 71.6%. However, the prevalence of atypical CAP was 28.4%. In the current study, the commonest age for CAP was from 3 months up to 5 years (56.6%), with equal sex distribution, and children who were diagnosed with typical CAP had a significantly higher median age (2 years). There was a statistically significantly higher prevalence of fever, wet cough, recurrent infection,…
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