Predictors for Intravenous Immunoglobulin Resistance in Patients with Kawasaki Disease

Table 1

Demographic comparison of 1281 patients with Kawasaki disease between the two groups.

Variables	Group 1 (n = 141)	Group 2 (n = 1140)	value
Age, months	12 (8–36)	12 (11–36)	0.746
≤12 months, n (%)	84 (59.6)	633 (55.5)	—
>12 months, n (%)	57 (40.4)	507 (44.5)	—
Sex (male: female ratio)	2.71	1.67	0.014
Duration of fever (days)	6 (5–9)	6 (5–7)	0.046
Initial administration of IVIG (days)	6 (5–9)	6 (5–8)	0.043
Length of hospital stay (days)	5 (3–8)	2 (2–3	<0.001

Values are expressed as median (interquartile range) or n (%); IVIG = intravenous immunoglobulin.