Evolving Characteristics of Decedents With Hepatitis A Listed as a Cause of Death, United States, 2011-2021.

ABSTRACT: Hepatitis A is a vaccine-preventable disease that typically causes mild illness. Hepatitis A outbreaks associated with person-to-person transmission have been widespread in the United States since 2016. We used public-use US Multiple Cause of Death data to compare characteristics and listed comorbidities among decedents with hepatitis A-listed deaths during non-outbreak (2011-2015) and outbreak (2017-2021) periods and assessed the median age at death among decedents with and without hepatitis A-listed deaths during the outbreak period. From the non-outbreak period to the outbreak period, hepatitis A-listed deaths more than doubled (from 369 to 801), while the hepatitis A-listed age-adjusted mortality rate increased 150% (p < 0.001). When compared with the non-outbreak period, hepatitis A-l

SUBMITTER: Hofmeister MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11809443 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature