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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2005 Mar;16(2):220–225. doi: 10.1097/01.ede.0000152901.06689.d4

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Incidence of Kawasaki syndrome in Japan, 1979–2000. Incidence (solid line): number of hospitalizations (cases per year). Incidence rate (dashed line): number of Kawasaki syndrome hospitalizations per 100,000 children younger than 5 years of age per year. Note the epidemics in 1982 and 1986 and the rising attack rate during the decade of the 1990s.