• African health sciences · Dec 2017

    Meta Analysis

    Angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion/deletion polymorphism and susceptibility to Kawasaki disease: a meta-analysis.

    • Yan Pan and Hongzhu Lu.
    • Department of Pediatrics, the First Affiliated Hospital of Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei Province, China.
    • Afr Health Sci. 2017 Dec 1; 17 (4): 991-999.

    BackgroundThe angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) I/D polymorphism has been reported to be associated with Kawasaki disease (KD), but studies to date present conflicting results.ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to derive a more precise estimation of the association between the ACE I/D polymorphism and KD risk.MethodsPubMed, EMBASE, CNKI and Wangfang databases were retrievaled to identify for relevant studies from inception to May 2017. Pooled odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using Stata 12.0 software.ResultsA total of 6 case-control studies comprising 634 patients and 458 controls were included in the meta-analysis, and we found a significant association between the ACE I/D polymorphism and KD risk (D vs I:OR = 0.81, 95%CI = 0.31-2.11;DD vs II: OR = 1.03, 95%CI = 0.42-2.54; DI vs II: OR = 1.44, 95%CI = 1.09-1.90; dominant model: OR = 1.43, 95%CI = 1.11-1.85; recessive model: OR = 1.21, 95%CI = 0.44-3.29 ). When stratified by sample size>200, this polymorphism is associated with an increased the risk of KD.ConclusionThe I/D polymorphism in the ACE gene may be associated with susceptibility to KD.

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