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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the Kawasaki Disease study population

From: Unexpectedly high incidence of Kawasaki Disease in a Canadian Atlantic Province- an 11-year retrospective descriptive study

 

N (%)a

Demographic

 Sex

  Male

125 (57.3)

  Female

93 (42.7)

 Age

   < 1 year

27 (12.3)

  1–4 year

116 (52.7)

  5–9 year

68 (30.9)

  10–14 year

9 (4.1)

Clinical features

 Fever

   ≥ 5 days

195 (98)

  4 days

2 (1)

   < 4 days

2 (1)

 Skin rash

184 (88.7)

 Oral changes

187 (86.2)

 Nonpurulent conjunctivitis

153 (72.9)

 Extremity swelling/erythema

124 (56.9)

 Extremity desquamation

119 (54.6)

 Cervical lymphadenopathy

88 (42.5)

 BCGb site inflammation

1 (0.5)

Treatment

 Received IVIG

191 (86.8)

  IVIG resistant

23 (12)

 Received aspirin

209 (96)

 Received steroid

17 (7.7)

 Received biological

1 (0.5)

Complications

 Recurrence rate

4 (1.8)

 Coronary artery aneurysm

13 (6)

 Death

1 (0.5)

  1. a Excluding missing data
  2. b Bacille Calmette-Guerin (tuberculosis vaccine)