Maternal and Perinatal Factors Associated With Kawasaki Disease Among Offspring in Taiwan

Chaw-Liang Chang; Ming-Chih Lin; Ching-Heng Lin; Tai-Ming Ko

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.3233

Maternal and Perinatal Factors Associated With Kawasaki Disease Among Offspring in Taiwan

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e213233. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.3233.

Authors

Chaw-Liang Chang^{1

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4}, Ming-Chih Lin^{5

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8}, Ching-Heng Lin^{9

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13}, Tai-Ming Ko^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
² Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Cathay General Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
⁴ School of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
⁶ School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁷ Department of Food and Nutrition, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan.
⁸ School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
⁹ Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
¹⁰ Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.
¹¹ Department of Health Care Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹² Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
¹³ Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹⁴ Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
¹⁵ Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹⁶ Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
¹⁷ Center For Intelligent Drug Systems and Smart Bio-devices, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
¹⁸ Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Center for Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Abstract

This case-control study investigates the association of perinatal factors and maternal autoimmune diseases with the development of Kawasaki disease using the Taiwan Maternal and Child Health Database.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Child, Preschool
Family
Female
Humans
Male
Morbidity / trends
Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / epidemiology*
Pregnancy
Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / epidemiology*
Risk Assessment / methods*
Risk Factors
Taiwan / epidemiology