Table 1

Demographics of Kawasaki disease in the UK and Ireland

Total number of cases	Complete		Atypical		Incomplete		Postmortem		Total
Total number of cases	389	%	46	%	116	%	2	%	553	100%
Sex
Male	231	60	28	61	64	55	0		323	59
Female	153	40	18	39	42	36	2	100	215	39
Sex unreported	5	1	0	0	10	9	0		15	3
Male to female ratio	1.50:1		1.56:1		1.52:1		0		1.51:1
Age (years)
<1	50	13	20	43	25	22	2	100	97	18
1–4	251	64	19	41	48	41	0		318	57
5–9	69	18	5	11	28	24	0		102	18
10–16	7	2	1	2	1	1	0		9	2
Not reported	12	3	1	2	14	12	0		27	5
Ethnicity
White	257	75	26	70	71	72	1	50	355	64
White and black	12	6	4	5	4	2	0		20	7
White and Asian	10	2	1	2	3	0	0		14	2
Black	39	3	4	6	3	0	0		46	4
Asian subcontinent	25	7	5	8	12	9	0		42	10
Other Asian	11	5	1	8	3	7	1	50	16	8
Chinese/Japanese	14	3	4	2	2	9	0		20	5
Others	21	5	1	2	18	16	0		40	7
Country
Scotland	19	5	3	7	7	6	0		28	5
Ireland	23	6	0	0	9	8	0		31	6
Wales	24	6	7	15	6	5	0		35	6
Northern Ireland	9	2	0	0	2	2	0		12	2
Isle of Man/Channel Islands	2	1	2	4	1	1	0		5	1
England	312	80	34	74	94	79	2	100	442	80
Date of illness
1 February 2013–31 January 2014	186	49	13	28	27	25	0		226	42
1 February 2014–31 January 2015	161	42	30	65	70	60	2	100	263	49
Outside study period	36	9	3	7	9	8	0		48	9