Population-Based Study of the Association between Urbanization and Kawasaki Disease in Taiwan

Table 2

Association between urbanization level and Kawasaki disease.

	Patients with Kawasaki disease (𝑛=115)		Patients without Kawasaki disease (𝑛=1150)		𝑃 value
	𝑁	%	𝑁	%
Urbanization level					0.9
1 (most urbanized)	34	29.6	362	31.5
2	29	25.2	286	24.9
3	30	26.1	241	21.0
4	14	12.2	154	13.4
5	2	1.7	28	2.4
6	3	2.6	36	3.1
7 (least urbanized)	3	2.6	43	3.7
Geographic region					0.2
North	64	55.7	544	47.3
Center	21	18.3	312	27.1
South	25	21.7	250	21.7
East	5	4.3	44	3.8