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Introduction to Kawasaki Disease
As we all know, Kawasaki Disease is actually an acute, self-limiting systemic
vasculitis. It occurs predominantly in infants and young children. If you look at this
bar chart (Diagram 11), this is the statistics from Malaysia’s Kawasaki Disease
Registry from 2010 to 2016.
Diagram 11: Distribution of age at onset of illness for patients with Kawasaki
Disease in Malaysia from June 2010 to December 2016
You can see that this registry registered all children from 0 to 12 years old. Less than
5% of the patients were above 5 years old. A third of the patients were infants less
than 12 months old, and about a quarter were 1 to 2 years old. If you put children
below 2 years old, it constitutes more than half of 60% of Kawasaki Disease in this
country.
