Risk Factors and Predictive Models for Intravenous Immunoglobulin Resistance in Children with Recurrent Kawasaki Disease.

3 Previous studies suggested the KD incidence, with an increasing trend and a marked geographic variation, is expected to be higher in Asian countries compared to western countries. 4 Similarly, the rate of KD recurrence is higher in certain Asian countries, such as Japan and Korea (3–4%) 5–7 while lower in Caucasian population in US and Canada (1.5–1.7%). 8 , 9 Sudo et al have analyzed the data from a nationwide survey in Japan to compare the incidence rates of recurrent KD between different years and identify that it has remained largely unchanged over the past 30 years. 5 The etiology of KD as well as its recurrence remains elusive.

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