Kawasaki disease and epidemiologic methods Archives

Abstract Number: 306 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Association of Kawasaki Disease with Tropospheric Winds in Central Chile: Is Wind-Borne Desert Dust a Risk Factor?
Arturo Borzutzky^1,2, Alvaro García³, Rodrigo Hoyos-Bachiloglu^1,2 and Hector Jorquera^4,5, ¹Pediatrics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Medicine, Santiago, Chile, ²Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, ³Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Medicine, Santiago, Chile, ⁴Department of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Engineering, Santiago, Chile, ⁵Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable (CEDEUS), Santiago, Chile
Background/Purpose: Kawasaki disease (KD) has been reported to have seasonal variations in many different countries, as well as geographical and temporal clustering. It has been…

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