Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Blastomycosis Mortality Rates, United States, 1990–2010
Diana Khuu
, Shira Shafir, Benjamin Bristow, and Frank J. Sorvillo
, Shira Shafir, Benjamin Bristow, and Frank J. Sorvillo
Table 3
Demographic distribution and age-adjusted mortality rates for the Midwestern and Southern regions in the United States, 1990–2010
| Characteristic | Midwest |
South |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) deaths | Mean age at death, y | Age-adjusted mortality rate per 1 million person-years (95% CL) | No. (%) deaths | Mean age at death, y | Age-adjusted mortality rate per 1 million person-years (95% CL) | ||
| Sex | |||||||
| F | 186 (34.9) | 62.7 | 0.25 (0.21, 0.28) | 212 (33.0) | 61.7 | 0.18 (0.16, 0.21) | |
| M |
347 (65.1) |
60.2 |
0.57 (0.51, 0.63) |
431 (67.0) |
59.9 |
0.46 (0.42, 0.50) |
|
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||
| White | 418 (78.4) | 64.5 | 0.34 (0.31, 0.38) | 470 (73.1) | 64.0 | 0.29 (0.27, 0.32) | |
| Hispanic | 17 (3.2) | 47.2 | 0.45 (0.20, 0.70) | 4 (0.6) | 50.3 | 0.02 (0.00, 0.04) | |
| Black | 63 (11.8) | 50.7 | 0.55 (0.41, 0.69) | 157 (24.4) | 50.6 | 0.46 (0.39, 0.54) | |
| Asian | 16 (3.0) | 37.3 | 0.66 (0.29, 1.02) | 3 (0.5) | 56.7 | 0.09 (0.00, 0.20) | |
| Native American | 19 (3.6) | 52.7 | 0.34 (0.31, 0.38) | 9 (1.4) | 51.1 | 0.71 (0.23, 1.20) | |
| Total | 533 (100.0) | 61.1 | 0.39 (0.36, 0.42) | 643 (100.0) | 60.5 | 0.31 (0.28, 0.33) | |
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