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Volume 24, Number 2—February 2018
Research

Trends in Infectious Disease Mortality, South Korea, 1983–2015

Young June Choe, Seung-Ah Choe, and Sung-Il ChoComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (Y.J. Choe); Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (Y.J. Choe, S.-I. Cho); CHA University, Pocheon-si, South Korea (S.-A. Choe)

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Table 4

Trends in age-standardized mortality rates associated with infectious disease (derived using joinpoint analysis), South Korea, 1983–2015*

Disease Mortality rate
 AAPC, 1983–2015 Trend 1
 Trend 2
 Trend 3
1983 2015 Period APC Period APC Period APC
All infectious disease
 43.5
 44.6
 0.44
 1983–1991
 −9.73
1991–2006
 0.67
2006–2015
 8.97
Respiratory tract infections 15.1 19.5 1.06 1983–1992 −8.89 1992–2007 1.83 2007–2015 11.47
Sepsis 0.8 4.0 3.80 1983–2000 8.62 2000–2003 −20.38 2003–2015 6.99
Tuberculosis 23.7 3.0 −5.97 1983–1989 −9.12 1989–2015 −5.55
Intestinal infections 4.3 0.9 −2.62 1983–1988 −14.30 1988–2004 −4.50 2004–2015 5.48
Vaccine-preventable diseases 1.1 0.0 −1.71 1983–1987 −10.97 1987–1996 −3.00 1996–2015 −0.33
CNS infections 3.1 0.3 −2.71 1983–1986 −13.94 1986–1992 −5.50 1992–2015 −1.62
Viral hepatitis 0.0 1.0 3.24 1983–1998 2.75 1998–2007 7.92 2007–2015 −4.99
HIV diseases 0.0 0.2 0.70 1983–1998 −0.01 1998–2001 2.85 2001–2015 0.77
Rheumatic heart diseases 0.5 0.2 −0.35 1983–1999 −1.40 1999–2002 9.31 2002–2015 −2.24

*AAPC, average annual percentage change; APC, annual percentage change in age-standardized mortality rate; CNS, central nervous system. Mortality rates expressed as deaths/100,000 population. Values in bold indicate where AAPC or APC differed significantly (p<0.05) from zero (by a 2-sided test for which the true AAPC was zero, calculated based on a t distribution; https://surveillance.cancer.gov/help/joinpoint/setting-parameters/method-and-parameters-tab/average-annual-percent-change-aapc).

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