Volume 30, Number 1—January 2024
Research
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Tuberculosis Incidence, Arkansas, USA, 2010–2021
Maheen Humayun, Leonard Mukasa, Wen Ye, Joseph H. Bates, and Zhenhua Yang
Table 2
Average TB incidence by race/ethnicity, Arkansas, USA, 2010–2021*
| Category | Incidence (95% CI) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | 0–14 y | 15–24 y | 25–44 y | 45–64 y | >65 y | |
| State | 2.58 (2.42–2.76) | 1.29 (1.05–1.59) | 1.75 (1.42–2.17) | 2.76 (2.44–3.13) | 3.09 (2.75–3.48) | 3.79 (3.32–4.33) |
| Hispanic | 4.75 (3.99–5.67) | 1.40 (0.80–2.47) | 3.64 (2.26–5.86) | 6.27 (4.76–8.28) | 7.51 (5.25–10.75) | 16.61 (10.02–27.56) |
| Asian | 20.02 (16.60–24.16) | 1.79 (0.45–7.14) | 18.52 (11.17–30.72) | 25.45 (19.29–33.59) | 29.85 (21.33–41.77) | 19.45 (9.73–38.90) |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 4.42 (3.90–5.01) | 1.65 (1.07–2.53) | 2.98 (2.04–4.35) | 4.45 (3.50–5.66) | 6.34 (5.11–7.88) | 8.54 (6.44–11.33) |
| NHPI | 131.62 (111.39–155.51) | 139.60 (105.51–184. 71) | 108.08 (68.94–169.44) | 109.27 (80.45–148.40) | 206.17 (139.31–305.11) | 158.67 (59.55–422.75) |
| Non-Hispanic White | 1.17 (1.04–1.31) | 0.16 (0.07–0.33) | 0.22 (0.10–0.46) | 0.66 (0.49–0.89) | 1.50 (1.24–1.81) | 2.88 (2.44–3.39) |
*Incidence is no. cases/100,000 population. The table provides overall and age-stratified TB incidence for the state of Arkansas and for racial/ethnic groups as calculated by Poisson regression. NHPI, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander; TB, tuberculosis.
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