Ethnic and racial differences in the presence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at death.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In studies of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), whites makeup the vast majority of subjects. Whether ethnic/racial differences in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis occur in the general population is unknown.

Methods

To compare the presence of IPF between ethnic/racial groups of U.S. decedents from 1989 to 2007 by using the National Center for Health Statistics database.

Results

There were 251,058 U.S. decedents with IPF; 87.2% were non-Hispanic whites (White), 5.1% were non-Hispanic African American (black), 5.4% were Hispanic, and 2.2% were from other ethnic/racial groups (other). Whites coded with IPF died older than those in the other groups (77.9 years vs. 72.1 years for blacks, 75.3 years for Hispanics, and 75.6 years for others; p < 0.0001 for all pair

SUBMITTER: Swigris JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3294009 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature