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Twenty-two biennial nationwide surveys of Kawasaki disease have been conducted in Japan since 1970. The surveys reveal the epidemiologic features of the disease, such as the number of patients and incidence rates, age- and sex-specific incidence rates, seasonal trends, geographic distributions, status of cardiac lesions, and treatment. The descriptive epidemiologic features suggest that an infectious agent(s) is related to disease onset. However, sibling cases, parent and child cases, and differences in incidence rate among races suggest that host factors are important in disease onset.
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Nakamura, Y. (2017). Update on Nationwide Surveys and Epidemiologic Characteristics of Kawasaki Disease in Japan. In: Saji, B., Newburger, J., Burns, J., Takahashi, M. (eds) Kawasaki Disease. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56039-5_12
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