Table 2.

Effect of Kawasaki disease on allergic rhinitis.

Study	Study design	Population	N number of KD patients	Age of KD patients (y)	Control	Follow-up period (y)	Adjusted Hazard ratio	CI
(13)	Population-based	Taiwan	253	5 years of age or younger	Non-KD	5-year	1.30	1.04–1.62
(14)	Population-based	Taiwan	7,072	0–5 years	Non-KD	Till 6–13 years old	1.28 (adjusted OR)	1.20–1.37
(19)	Case-control	Japan	1,165	KD between the ages of 1 and 5 years	Non-KD		1.69 (relative risk)
	Questionnaire
	Survey
(23)	Cross-sectional study	Israel	144		General population	17 years old at evaluation	2.634 (OR)	1.686–4.114
(24)	Cross-sectional study	Singapore	93	1.17	Well-sibling controls	7.08 years old at evaluation	2.90 (adjusted OR)	1.27–6.60
Concomitant
(15)	Population-based	Taiwan	200	Younger than the age of 5 years	Non-KD		1.31 (adjusted OR)	0.88–1.94

CI, confidence interval; KD, Kawasaki disease; OR, odds ratio; y, years.