County-Level Variation in Hepatitis C Virus Mortality and Trends in the United States, 2005-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Since 2013, the national hepatitis C virus (HCV) death rate has steadily declined, but this decline has not been quantified or described on a local level.

Approach and results

We estimated county-level HCV death rates and assessed trends in HCV mortality from 2005 to 2013 and from 2013 to 2017. We used mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System and used a Bayesian multivariate space-time conditional autoregressive model to estimate age-standardized HCV death rates from 2005 through 2017 for 3,115 U.S. counties. Additionally, we estimated county-level, age-standardized rates for persons <40 and 40+ years of age. We used log-linear regression models to estimate the average annual percent change in HCV mortality during periods of interest and c

SUBMITTER: Hall EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8456961 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature