The incidence of Kawasaki disease using hospital admissions data for England 2006-2021.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the incidence of Kawasaki Disease (kDa) between 2006 and 2021 in England.

Methods

We identified all cases in hospital episode statistics with an ICD-10 diagnostic code M303 (for kDa) between 1 April 2006 and 31 March 2021. We validated 83 diagnoses using hospital medical records and found >97% accuracy. We calculated incidence rate ratios (IRRs) using Poisson regression and assessed the influence of age, sex, ethnicity and index of multiple deprivation (IMD). We used Office for National Statistics population estimates for England as the denominator.

Results

We identified a total of 5908 cases of kDa in all children under the age of 16 (mean age 3.8, s.d.=3.2, 95% CI: 3.7, 3.9). Incidence in children aged <5 years was 8.9 (95% CI: 8.6, 9.2)/100 00

SUBMITTER: Odingo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473221 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature