Hung-Chi Lue, Lei-Ru Chen, Ming-Tai Lin, Luan-Yin Chang, Jou-Kou Wang, Chin-Yun Lee, Mei-Hwan Wu
BACKGROUND: Kawasaki disease (KD), first described by Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967, was found for the first time in Taiwan in 1976. It continued to occur in increased numbers. For the study of incidence rates and epidemiological features of KD, we conducted five nationwide hospital surveys (NHS) in 1987, 1992, 1994, 2001 and 2008, respectively. We estimated also the annual incidence rates of KD during 1996-2007, based on the National Health Insurance (NHI) database, which had been implemented since 1995, covering 98% of the population in Taiwan...
April 2014: Pediatrics and Neonatology