Estimating the risk of acute rheumatic fever in New Zealand by age, ethnicity and deprivation.

ABSTRACT: In New Zealand, efforts to control acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its sequelae have focused on school-age children in the poorest socioeconomic areas; however, it is unclear whether this approach is optimal given the strong association with demographic risk factors other than deprivation, especially ethnicity. The aim of this study was to estimate the stratum-specific risk of ARF by key sociodemographic characteristics. We used hospitalization and disease notification data to identify new cases of ARF between 2010 and 2013, and used population count data from the 2013 New Zealand Census as our denominator. Poisson logistic regression methods were used to estimate stratum-specific risk of ARF development. The likelihood of ARF development varied considerably by age, ethnicity and deprivati

SUBMITTER: Gurney JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9150400 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature