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Jessica Laird-Gion1, Kimberlee Gauvreau2, Annette Baker3
1Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
The Journal of Pediatrics
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Abstract
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Acquired cardiovascular risk is a concern for children with Kawasaki disease, which might influence obesity. Patients with Kawasaki disease in a single-instruction, retrospective cohort exhibited only a minimal increase in BMI z score in the first 6 weeks after diagnosis that resolved at 1 year. Neither corticosteroid treatment nor the presence of coronary artery aneurysms had adverse impacts on the BMI z score trajectory.

