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210.5 per 100,000 exceeded the mean Asian and Pacific children annual incidence of 62.9 per
100,000 children, followed by native Hawaiian children with an incidence of 86.9, other
Asian children with an incidence of 84.9, and Chinese children with an incidence of 83.2 per
100,000 exceeding that of whites with an incidence of KD of 13.7 per 100,000 children.
Table 5. Global Incidence and Prevalence of KD
Authors (References) Country Study Period Incidence per Prevalence
106 per 106
Australia 1990-1999 7.96 per 106 --
Saundankar et al. [73] Australia 2000-2009 9.34 --
Australia 2005 15.7 --
Canada1 1995-2006 26.22 --
Lin et al. [74] Canada1 1995-2006 6.83 --
Canada1 1995 14.394 --
Canada1 2006 26.244 --
China5 2003-2007 46.322 --
Ma et al. [75] China5 2003 36.782 --
China5 2007 53.282 --
China6 1997-2001 7.062 --
Li et al. [76] China6 1997 8.572 --
China6 2001 9.812 --
China7 2000-2004 49.42 --
Du et al. [77] China7 2000 40.92 --
China7 2004 55.12 --
Fischer et al. [78] Denmark 1981-2004 4.5-5.0 --
Holman et al. [79] Hawaii 1996-2006 50.4 --
Ng et al. [81] Hong Kong 1994-1997 26.0 --
Hong Kong 1994-1997 39.0 --
Singh et al. [81] North India 1994 0.51 --
North India 2007 4.5 --
Nakamura et al. [82] Japan 2009 206.2 --
Japan 2010 239.6 --
Korea 2006-2008 113.1 --
Park et al. [83] Korea 2006 108.7 --
Korea 2008 113.1 --
Schiller et al. [84] Sweden 1990-1992 2.9 --
Sweden 1990-1992 6.22 --
Lue et al. [85] Taiwan 2006 66.242 --
Huang et al. [86] Taiwan 2003-2006 153.0 --
Taiwan 2003-2006 69.02 --
Harnden et al. [87] UK 1991 4.8 --
UK 2000 9.2 --
Holman et al. [88] US 2006 20.8 --
1Ontario; 2age <5 years; 3age 5 to 9 years; 4age 10 to 14 years; 5Shanghai; 6Sichuan Provence; 7Beijing.
Ng and colleagues [80] conducted retrospective and prospective studies of KD in Hong Kong
respectively between 1994 to 1997 and from 1997 to 2000 identifying 696 children < 15 years
of age and noting a higher incidence of KD in the prospective period (39 versus 26 per
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