Lynch Maureen, Holman Robert C, Mulligan Aisling, Belay Ermias D, Schonberger Lawrence B
Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch, Division of Viral and Ricksettial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/US DHHS, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2003 Nov;22(11):959-63. doi: 10.1097/01.inf.0000095194.83814.ee.
To describe the epidemiologic characteristics and estimate the incidence of Kawasaki syndrome (KS) among children in Ireland.
Hospital discharge records with a KS diagnosis among patients <18 years of age were examined using Ireland's Hospital In-Patient Enquiry database for 1996 through 2000.
During the study period 265 hospitalizations associated with KS among children <18 years of age were recorded in Ireland. Of those, 194 (73%) occurred among children <5 years of age. The median age of patients at admission was 2 years. The average annual KS hospitalization rate for children <5 years of age was 15.2 per 100 000 children, and among that group the hospitalization rate was higher for infants <1 year of age than for children 1 to 4 years of age (19.7 and 16.0 per 100 000 children, respectively). Most KS hospitalizations occurred among children <5 years of age and among boys. The highest monthly number of hospitalizations occurred during the months of November through January. No deaths associated with KS were reported among hospitalized children.
Hospital discharge data provide useful information on the epidemiology of KS in Ireland. The hospitalization rate for KS in Ireland is similar to rates in the United States and may be higher than those in other European countries, although the European studies differ in methodologies and time periods.
描述爱尔兰儿童川崎综合征（KS）的流行病学特征并估计其发病率。
利用爱尔兰1996年至2000年的医院住院病人查询数据库，对18岁以下确诊为KS的患者的医院出院记录进行检查。
在研究期间，爱尔兰记录了265例18岁以下儿童与KS相关的住院病例。其中，194例（73%）发生在5岁以下儿童中。入院患者的中位年龄为2岁。5岁以下儿童的KS年平均住院率为每10万名儿童15.2例，在该组中，1岁以下婴儿的住院率高于1至4岁儿童（分别为每10万名儿童19.7例和16.0例）。大多数KS住院病例发生在5岁以下儿童和男孩中。住院人数最多的月份是11月至1月。住院儿童中未报告与KS相关的死亡病例。
医院出院数据为爱尔兰KS的流行病学提供了有用信息。爱尔兰KS的住院率与美国相似，可能高于其他欧洲国家，尽管欧洲的研究在方法和时间段上有所不同。
