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August 25, 2021

Covid‑19: los síntomas de larga duración son más raros en los niños que en los adultos

Robert C Hughes, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Emma Duncan, King's College London; Michael Absoud, King's College London, and Sunil Bhopal, Newcastle University

Menos del 2% de los niños que padecieron la enfermedad causada por el SARS-CoV-2 seguía teniendo síntomas después de ocho semanas.

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August 24, 2021

COVID: long‑lasting symptoms rarer in children than in adults – new research

Robert C Hughes, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Emma Duncan, King's College London; Michael Absoud, King's College London, and Sunil Bhopal, Newcastle University

Fewer than 2% of children with COVID-19 still had symptoms after eight weeks.

Our bones grow and change over our whole life. Marcella Cheng/The Conversation

January 28, 2018

Curious Kids: Why do we have bones?

Emma Duncan, The University of Queensland

Bones protect our insides, help us to move and even help make our blood.

Dietary calcium is necessary to ensure our bones hold on to all the calcium they need to stay strong. Incase/Flickr

March 29, 2017

Explainer: how do our bones get calcium and why do they need it?

Emma Duncan, The University of Queensland; Kerrie Sanders, Australian Catholic University; Peter Robert Ebeling, Monash University, and Warrick Inder, The University of Queensland

If dietary calcium is in short supply, calcium is released from bone to maintain the critical level in the bloodstream needed for nerve and muscle function.

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