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Epidemiology of kawasaki disease in South Korea: A nationwide survey 2015–2017

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal Oct 23, 2020

Kim GB, Eun LY, Han JW, et al. - Researchers conducted the study for analyzing the recent epidemiologic features of Kawasaki disease (KD) in South Korea. The ninth triennial nationwide questionnaire survey gathered data on the demographic findings, symptoms and signs, treatment patterns and coronary artery complications of acute-phase KD occurred in 2015–2017 from 98 hospitals with pediatric residency programs and 108 community hospitals with no residency programs. Data were obtained from 93 of the 98 hospitals (response rate: 94.9%) with residency programs and 75 of the 108 community-based children’s hospitals (response rate: 69.4%) without residency programs. South Korea's peak KD incidence was 202.2 per 100,000 younger than 5 years population (2015), and the incidence of giant coronary artery aneurysm declined to 0.09% (2017).

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