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Volume 28, Number 8—August 2022
Synopsis

Incidence of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Infection, by Ethnic Group, Hawaii, USA, 2005–2019

Rebekah A. Blakney, Emily E. Ricotta, Timothy B. Frankland, Stacey Honda, Adrian Zelazny, Katrin D. Mayer-Barber, Samantha G. Dean1, Dean Follmann, Kenneth N. Olivier, Yihe G. Daida, and D. Rebecca PrevotsComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (R.A. Blakney, E.E. Ricotta, A. Zelazny, K.D. Mayer-Barber, S.G. Dean, D. Follmann, K.N. Olivier, D.R. Prevots); Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (T.B. Frankland, S. Honda, Y.G. Daida)

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Table 1

NTM-PI incidence among Kaiser Permanente Hawaii beneficiaries, by ethnic group, Hawaii, USA, 2005–2019*

Ethnicity† Beneficiaries, % No. cases Incidence, cases/100,000 person-years Incidence rate ratio (95% CI)‡
All reporting ethnicity
 255,605
 733
 36
 1 (0.9–1.2)
White
Any White 111,583 (44) 299 35 Referent
Only White 74,289 (29) 209 38 1.1 (0.9–1.3)
Black 4,925 (2) 5 ND ND
American Indian, Aleutian, or Eskimo
 5,383 (2)
 4
 ND
 ND
Asian
Only Asian 85,676 (34) 328 46 1.3 (1.1–1.5)
Any Asian 123,187 (48) 423 41 1.2 (1–1.4)
Filipino 49,869 (20) 155 39 1.1 (0.9–1.4)
Japanese 32,238 (13) 137 46 1.3 (1.1–1.6)
Chinese 17,987 (7) 68 43 1.2 (0.9–1.6)
Korean 5,157 (2) 25 63 1.8 (1.2–2.7)
Other Asian 4,463 (2) 7 ND ND
Vietnamese
 1,893 (1)
 9
 ND
 ND
NHOPI
Only NHOPI 27,003 (11) 36 17 0.5 (0.3–0.7)
Any NHOPI 66,120 (26) 140 27 0.8 (0.6–0.9)
Pacific Islander 51,861 (20) 114 28 0.8 (0.6–1)
Hawaiian 41,853 (16) 115 32 0.9 (0.7–1.1)
Samoan 5,642 (2) 9 ND ND
Other 18,830 (7) 34 25 0.7 (0.5–1)

*ND, calculation not done because numbers of cases and follow-up times were too low to estimate incidence; NHOPI, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander; NTM-PI, nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infection. †Ethnic groups are not mutually exclusive except noted by “only.” Ethnicity not reported by 43,218 (14%), single ethnicity reported by 177,016 (69%), multiple ethnicities reported by 78,589 (31%). Only ethnicities for which NTM-PI prevalence was >1% are shown. Asian not presented: Laotian, Asian Indian or Pakistani, Hmong, Kampuchean, Thai; NHOPI not presented: Fiji Islander, Micronesian, Chamorran, Guamanian, Polynesian, Tahitian, Tongan, Melanesian, New Guinean. ‡Incidence rate ratio only calculated for ethnic groups with >10 NTM-PI cases.

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1Current affiliation: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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