Number and rate* of newly reported cases? of chronic hepatitis C virus infection, by demographic characteristics ¡ª United States, 2020

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Number and rate* of newly reported cases† of chronic hepatitis C virus infection, by demographic characteristics — United States, 2020
Table 2.2.
Characteristics No. Rate*
Total § 107,300 40.7
Age (yrs)
0-19 718 1.1
20-29 16,026 45
30-39 26,194 73.6
40-49 16,415 51.2
50-59 18,474 54.4
≥60 23,242 37.3
Sex
Male 68,561 52.9
Female 38,283 28.6
Race/ethnicity
American Indian/Alaska Native 1,443 66.8
Asian/Pacific Islander 619 3.6
Black, non-Hispanic 9,084 25.9
White, non-Hispanic 43,288 26.3
Hispanic 3,954 9
Urbanicity 
Urban 82,577 36.4
Rural 20,944 57.3
HHS Region: Regional Office #
Region 1: Boston 4,082 29.6
Region 2: New York 7,337 26
Region 3: Philadelphia 15,881 54.4
Region 4: Atlanta 29,890 57
Region 5: Chicago 14,591 31.9
Region 6: Dallas 9,788 71.1
Region 7: Kansas City 6,639 46.9
Region 8: Denver 4,328 35
Region 9: San Francisco 8,717 22.1
Region 10: Seattle 6,047 41.7
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Source: ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

* Rates per 100,000 population.

† Reported confirmed cases. For the case definition, see .

§ Numbers reported in each category may not add up to the total number of reported cases in a year due to cases with missing data or, in the case of race/ethnicity, cases categorized as “Other”.

¶ Urbanicity was categorized according to the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) urban-rural classification scheme for counties and county-equivalent entities. Large central metro, large fringe metro, medium metro, and small metro counties were grouped as urban. Micropolitan and noncore counties were grouped as rural.

** US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Regions were categorized according to the grouping of states and US territories assigned under each of the ten . For the purposes of this report, regions with US territories (Region 2 and Region 9) contain data from states only.

During 2020, the rates of newly reported chronic hepatitis C were highest among persons aged 30– 39 years, males, American Indian/Alaska Native persons, those living in rural areas, and persons in US Department of Health and Human Services Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas). Among all cases of chronic hepatitis C newly reported during 2020, 26% occurred among persons aged 30–39 years, 64% occurred among males, and 80% occurred in urban areas. Race/ethnicity information was only available for 58,388 (54%) cases of newly reported chronic hepatitis C; after excluding cases with missing race/ethnicity information, 67% of cases occurred among non-Hispanic White persons.

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