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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Blastomycosis Mortality Rates, United States, 1990–2010

Diana KhuuComments to Author , Shira Shafir, Benjamin Bristow, and Frank J. Sorvillo
Author affiliations: University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA (D. Khuu, S. Shafir, F. Sorvillo); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA (B. Bristow)

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Table 3

Demographic distribution and age-adjusted mortality rates for the Midwestern and Southern regions in the United States, 1990–2010

Characteristic Midwest
South
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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