Trends in Systemic Sclerosis Mortality Over Forty-Eight Years, 1968-2015: A US Population-Based Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify secular trends associated with systemic sclerosis (SSc) mortality over a 48-year period.

Methods

Using national mortality data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research, and population data from the US Census Bureau, we calculated an age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) for SSc and non-SSc (all other causes), and we also calculated the ratio of the SSc ASMR to the non-SSc ASMR for each year from 1968 to 2015. We then used a joinpoint regression model to evaluate mortality trends overall and by sex and race.

Results

From 1968 to 2015, there were 46,798 deaths with SSc recorded as the "underlying" cause of death and 106,058,839 non-SSc deaths. There were an additional 9,063 de

SUBMITTER: Yen EY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7868470 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature