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Volume 30, Number 5—May 2024
Synopsis

Coccidioidomycosis-Related Hospital Visits, Texas, USA, 2016–2021

Heather MayfieldComments to Author , Vanora Davila, and Elena Penedo
Author affiliation: Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas, USA

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Table 2

Patient demographics according to year in study of coccidioidomycosis-related hospital visits, Texas, USA, 2016–2021*

Demographics Year
 Total patients
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
No. patients
 634
 582
 571
 640
 590
 709
 3,726 (100.0)
Age group, y
0–17 27 18 26 10 19 27 127 (3.4)
18–44 192 169 157 179 191 189 1,077 (28.9)
46–64 275 244 237 255 233 278 1,522 (40.8)
65–74 86 111 108 127 91 133 656 (17.6)
>75
 54
 40
 43
 69
 56
 82
 344 (9.2)
Patient sex
M 358 363 312 340 335 389 2,097 (56.3)
F 202 150 208 227 202 239 1,228 (33.0)
Unknown
 74
 69
 51
 73
 53
 81
 401 (10.7)
Race/ethnicity
Hispanic 323 301 267 272 252 354 1,769 (47.5)
Non-Hispanic Black 75 65 60 69 79 93 441 (11.8)
Non-Hispanic other† 31 49 51 41 37 41 250 (6.7)
Non-Hispanic White 205 165 193 258 222 221 1,264 (33.9)
Unknown
 0
 2
 0
 0
 0
 0
 2 (0.1)
Valley fever region status‡
Valley fever region 449 388 359 391 360 416 2,363 (63.4)
Non–Valley fever region 185 194 203 238 227 288 1,335 (35.8)
Unknown 0 0 9 11 3 5 28 (0.8)

*Values are no. (%). International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification, codes were used to determine a coccidioidomycosis diagnosis and included codes B38, B38.0, B38.1, B38.2, B38.3, B38.4, B38.7, B38.8, B38.81, B38.89, and B38.9. †Non-Hispanic other category includes American Indian/Eskimo/Aleut, Asian or Pacific Islander, and other. If a hospital had <10 patients of 1 race, that race was categorized as other, and ethnicity of those patients was suppressed. ‡The 96-county area of Texas estimated to be coccidioidomycosis-endemic was determined by using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Valley fever maps spatially overlaid on a Texas county map. Any county that fell within the estimated area was designated as a Valley fever region.

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