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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cardiol Young. 2021 Aug 5;32(5):718–726. doi: 10.1017/S1047951121003024

Table 1.

Comparison of demographics, patient characteristics, and presenting symptoms stratified by presence of cardiac complications.

Variable of interest All cases (n = 39) Cardiac complications present (n = 19) Cardiac complications absent (n = 20)
n (%) n (%) n (%) p-value
Age in years (median and IQR) 7.8 (3.612.7) 8.8 (3.7–13.7) 6.7 (4.1–10.9) 0.25
Specific age bands
 <1 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0.59
 1–<5 13 (33%) 7 (37%) 6 (30%)
 5– <10 13 (33%) 5 (26%) 8 (40%)
 10– <15 11 (28%) 5 (26%) 6 (30%)
 15+ 2 (5%) 2 (11%) 0 (0%)
Sex (% female) 18 (46%) 7 (37%) 11 (55%) 0.26
Race/ethnicity
 Non-Hispanic Black 20 (51%) 11 (58%) 9 (45%) 0.18
 Non-Hispanic White 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
 Hispanic 17 (44%) 6 (32%) 11 (55%)
 Other/unknown 2 (5%) 2 (11%) 0 (0%)
Insurance
 Private 5 (13%) 2 (11%) 3 (15%) 1
 Public 32 (82%) 16 (84%) 16 (80%)
 Unknown or self-pay 2 (5%) 1 (5%) 1 (5%)
Any underlying condition 13 (33%) 8 (42%) 5 (25%) 0.32
Symptoms at presentation
 Fever 39 (100%) 19 (100%) 20 (100%)
 Any respiratory (cough, SOB, rhinorrhea, congestion) 16 (41%) 9 (47%) 7 (35%) 0.52
 Abdominal pain 32 (82%) 15 (80%) 17 (85%) 0.7
 Rash 17 (44%) 9 (47%) 8 (40%) 0.75
Conjunctival injection 24 (62%) 15 (79%) 9 (45%) 0.05
 Peripheral extremity changes or swelling or erythema 8 (21%) 4 (21%) 4 (20%) 1
 Mucous membrane changes (strawberry tongue and lip erythema/cracking) 25 (64%) 15 (79%) 10 (50%) 0.1
Kawasaki disease
 Meets Kawasaki disease diagnostic criteria (complete and incomplete) 18 (46%) 12 (63%) 6 (30%) 0.06
 Meets complete Kawasaki disease criteria 6 (33%) n = 18 3 (25%) n = 12 3 (50%) n = 6 0.34

IQR = interquartile range.

Statistically significant differences are marked by bold rows.