Mortality Trends in Risk Conditions and Invasive Mycotic Disease in the United States, 1999-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Invasive fungal infections in the United States are chronically underdiagnosed and a lack of coordinated surveillance makes the true burden of disease difficult to determine. The purpose of this analysis was to capture mortality-associated burden of risk conditions and fungal infections.

Methods

We analyzed data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1999 through 2018 to estimate the mortality attributed to risk conditions and related fungal disease.

Results

The number of risk conditions associated with fungal disease is steadily rising in the United States, with 1 047 422 diagnoses at time of death in 2018. While fungal disease decreased substantially from 1999 to 2010, primarily due to the control of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, t

SUBMITTER: Rayens E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8800183 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature