Do sports protect us from COVID-19? An evaluation of COVID-19 infection, vaccination status, and cardiac examination findings in children who exercise.

Aim: The COVID-19 pandemic which has devastated the whole world for the past 3 years affects different patient groups differently. This study aims to evaluate the prevalence, symptoms, and severity of COVID-19 infection, vaccination status, and cardiac pathologies of children who exercise.

Material And Methods: The records of the children and adolescents who applied to our paediatric cardiology outpatient clinic for preparticipation examinations between 01.

Intriguing new faces of Covid-19: persisting clinical symptoms and cardiac effects in children.

Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the persisting Covid-19-related symptoms of the cases included in our study and to assess their cardiac findings to determine the impact of Covid-19 on children's cardiovascular health.

Methods: In this study, 121 children between the ages of 0- and 18 with Covid-19 were evaluated based on their history, blood pressure values, and electrocardiography and echocardiography results. These findings were compared with the findings of the control group which consisted of 95 healthy cases who were in the same age range as the study group and did not have Covid-19.