Reality of the Kawasaki disease epidemiology.

Reality of the Kawasaki disease epidemiology. Korean J Pediatr. 2019 Jul 09;: Authors: Kim GB Abstract Epidemiologic studies of Kawasaki disease (KD) have shown new pattern or change of KD occurrence and supported to infer pathophysiology or risk factors of KD from the first patient with KD reported in 1961. The incidence of KD in Northeast Asia country including Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan are 10-30 times higher than that of KD in the Unites States and Europe. Knowing true epidemiology of KD in each country and publications of update KD epidemiology also could give KD vigilance to general health care provider and general population, which definitely could give early detection of KD, early treatment, and finally reduction of coronary artery complications and mortality from KD. Therefore, the effort to investigate true epidemiology of KD should be continued in every country for the quality care of patients with KD using questionnaire survey, national health insurance system data, or combined methods depending on each country's medical environment. PMID: 31319643 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Korean Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Tags: Korean J Pediatr Source Type: research