Incidence of Kawasaki disease before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study in Japan.

Kyohei IioKousaku MatsubaraChisato MiyakoshiKunitaka OtaRika YamaokaJunji EguchiOsamu MatsumuraTakahiro OkutaniIkuyo UedaMasahiro Nishiyama

Published in: BMJ paediatrics open (2021)

This study showed that the number and incidence of KD was dramatically reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. This change was temporally associated with decreased activities of various infectious diseases other than COVID-19, supporting the hypothesis of infection-triggered pathogenesis in KD.

Keyphrases

infectious diseases
risk factors
coronavirus disease
sars cov