Table 3.

Recurrent Kawasaki disease (KD) patients <18 years of age by race and ethnicity, United States, 1984–2008^*

	Recurrent KD	Non-recurrent KD	Recurrence (%)	RR, 95% CI
Race**	n=90	n=4908
White	46 (51.1%)	2926 (59.6%)	46/2972 (1.5%)	Reference
Black	12 (13.3%)	912 (18.6%)	12/924 (1.3%)	0.8 (0.4, 1.6)
Asian/Pacific Islander	29 (32.2%)	807 (16.4%)	29/836 (3.5%)	2.3 (1.4, 3.7)
American Indian/Alaska Native	0 (0.0%)	21 (0.4%)	0/21 (0.0%)	——
Other	3 (3.3%)	242 (4.9%)	3/245 (1.2%)	0.8 (0.2, 2.6)
Ethnicity**	n=52	n=4342
Non-Hispanic	39 (75.0%)	3208 (73.9%)	39/3247 (1.2%)	Reference
Hispanic	13 (25.0%)	1134 (26.1%)	13/1147 (1.1%)	0.9 (0.5, 1.8)

^*RR=risk ratio, CI=confidence interval

^**10.1% of patients missing race information, 20.9% of patients missing ethnicity information