Up in the Air: Does Ground-Level Ozone Trigger Kawasaki Disease?

摘要

Kawasaki disease occurs most often in children of East Asian ancestry, but the known genetic factors cannot explain why more children have been diagnosed with the disease in recent years, according to Bing-Fang Hwang, an environmental epidemiologist at China Medical University in Taiwan. Hwang and colleagues now report an association between exposure to ground-level ozone and increased risk of Kawasaki disease in a group of young Taiwanese children.