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Volume 29, Number 5—May 2023
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Trends in and Risk Factors for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA, 2015–2020

Chinenye M. Okafor, Paula Clogher, Danyel Olson, Linda Niccolai, and James HadlerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (C.M. Okafor, L. Niccolai, J. Hadler); Connecticut Emerging Infections Program, New Haven (P. Clogher, D. Olson, L. Niccolai, J. Hadler); Yale Institute of Global Health, New Haven (L. Niccolai)

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Table 1

Demographic characteristics of persons with incident CDI, stratified by occurrence of recurrent CDI, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA, 2015–2020*

Characteristic Total Recurrent CDI, n = 515 No recurrent CDI, n = 3,786 p value
Year of incident CDI 0.002
2015 751 (17.5) 115 (22.3) 636 (16.8) 0.002
2016 744 (17.3) 86 (16.7) 658 (17.4) NS
2017 685 (15.9) 68 (13.2) 617 (16.3) NS
2018 789 (18.3) 77 (15.0) 712 (18.8) 0.03
2019 632 (14.7) 68 (13.2) 564 (14.9) NS
2020
700 (16.3)
101 (19.6)
599 (15.8)
0.03
Age, y, median (IQR)
65.0 (26.0)
70.0 (23.0)
64.0 (26.0)
<0.001
Sex 0.04
M 1,640 (38.1) 175 (34.0) 1,465 (38.7)
F
2,661 (61.9)
340 (66.0)
2,321 (61.3)

Race
White 3,169 (73.7) 419 (81.4) 2,750 (72.6) <0.001
Black 430 (10.0) 34 (6.6) 396 (10.5) 0.006
Asian, American Indian, or Pacific Islander 38 (0.9) 1 (0.2) 37 (1.0) NS
Mixed race or unknown
664 (15.4)
61 (11.8)
603 (15.9)
0.02
Ethnicity
Hispanic 327 (8.4) 31 (6.5) 296 (8.7) NS
Non-Hispanic 3,556 (91.6) 448 (93.5) 3,108 (91.3) 0.006

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. CDI, Clostridioides difficile infection; IQR, interquartile range; NS, not significant.

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