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Epidemiologic Perspectives

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Epidemiology is the branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population. It has long been the hope that epidemiologic research would provide clues to the central mystery of Kawasaki disease: its etiology. New insights regarding the seasonality of KD and the relationship to wind patterns may now indeed lead us to the answer.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

    Jane C. Burns M.D.

  2. University of California San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA, 92093-0641, USA

    Jane C. Burns M.D.

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  1. Advanced and Integrated Cardiovascular Research Course in the Young and Adolescence, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ben Tsutomu Saji

  2. Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Jane W. Newburger

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Rady Children’s Hospital, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA

    Jane C. Burns

  4. Heart Center , Seattle Childrens Hospital, Seattle, USA

    Masato Takahashi

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Burns, J.C. (2017). Epidemiologic Perspectives. In: Saji, B., Newburger, J., Burns, J., Takahashi, M. (eds) Kawasaki Disease. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56039-5_11

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