Rates* of death with Hepatitis C virus infection listed as a cause of death† among residents, by state or jurisdiction — United States, 2021

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Rates* of death with Hepatitis C virus infection listed as a cause of death† among residents, by state or jurisdiction — United States, 2021
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Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Multiple Cause of Death on CDC WONDER Online Database. Data for 2021 are from the 2018–2021 single-race file. Data are based on information from all death certificates files in the vital records offices of the 50 states and the District of Columbia through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Deaths of nonresidents (e.g., nonresident aliens, nationals living abroad, residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and other US territories) and fetal deaths are excluded. Accessed at CDC Wonder on March 13, 2023. CDC WONDER data set documentation and technical methods can be accessed here.
* Rates are age-adjusted per 100,000 US standard population in 2000 using the following age group distribution (in years): <1, 1–4, 5–14, 15–24, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–64, 65–74, 75–84, and ≥85. For age-adjusted death rates, the age-specific death rate is rounded to one decimal place before proceeding to the next step in the calculation of age-adjusted death rates for NCHS Multiple Cause of Death on CDC WONDER. This rounding step may affect the precision of rates calculated for small numbers of deaths. Missing data are not included.
† Cause of death is defined as one of the multiple causes of death and is based on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes B17.1, and B18.2 (hepatitis C).
State or jurisdiction listed in order of increasing rate and then alphabetical order.

During 2021, state-specific mortality rates varied throughout the country but were highest in the Central, Western, and certain Appalachian states, which reflects a different epidemiologic picture from acute hepatitis C rates (Figure 3.3). The jurisdictions in the highest rate category of 4.67–11.05 deaths per 100,000 population include (in increasing rate order) Washington, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Colorado, New Mexico, West Virginia, Oregon, District of Columbia, and Oklahoma. The states in the lowest rate category (0.00–2.06 deaths per 100,000 population) include Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, Utah, Illinois, Hawaii, Wisconsin, Georgia, New Hampshire, New York, and Iowa.

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