Mortality among persons with a history of kawasaki disease in Japan: Mortality among males with cardiac sequelae is significantly higher than that of the general population

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 134-138

  Nakamura, Yosikazu ^a   Aso, Eiko ^a   Yashiro, Mayumi ^a   Uehara, Ritei ^a   Watanabe, Makoto ^a   Oki, Izumi ^a   Yanagawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Follow up; Japan; Long term prognosis; Mortality rate; Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; SCHOOL CHILD; VITAL STATISTICS; CHILD; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; POPULATION GROUPS; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 39849102119     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.134     Document Type: Article

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