Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Legionnaires’ Disease Incidence and Risk Factors, New York, New York, USA, 2002–2011
Andrea Farnham1
, Lisa Alleyne, Daniel Cimini, and Sharon Balter
, Lisa Alleyne, Daniel Cimini, and Sharon Balter
Table 2
Rates of community-acquired Legionnaires’ disease by census tract poverty level, New York, New York, USA, 2002–2011*
| Census tract poverty level† | No. cases | Rate/100,000 population |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Crude | Age-adjusted‡ | ||
| Very low | 80 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Low | 229 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| Medium | 298 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| High | 247 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| Very high | 196 | 1.9 | 2.2 |
| Highest |
211 |
2.3 |
3.0 |
| Total | 1,261 | 1.6 | |
*Eighteen community-acquired cases could not be geolocated to a census tract and were excluded from the total case count.
†By percentage of residents with household incomes <100% of the federal poverty level according to 2000 U.S. Census data: very low, <5%; low, 5%–9%; medium, 10%–19%; high, 20%–29%; very high, 30%–39%; highest, >40%.
‡Age-adjustment calculations were based on 2000 U.S. Census standard population.
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