Hepatitis and Hispanic Americans

Among all ethnic groups in 2006, Hispanics had the highest incidence of Hepatitis A.
Hispanics are three times more likely to be diagnosed with Hepatitis A than non-Hispanic Whites.
Hispanics are almost twice as likely to die from viral hepatitis, as compared to Whites.
Hispanic adults 40 years and over are 50% more likely to develop Hepatitis B.
Data on chronic Hepatitis B and chronic Hepatitis C virus infection (past or present) are not included by the CDC in the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System reports, because they are undergoing data quality review. Neither is this data reported in the CDC Healthy People 2010 database.

VIRAL HEPATITIS

Death Rates:

**Death Rates for Viral Hepatitis, 2005 (all types)**
	Hispanic	Non-Hispanic White	Hispanics / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
Male	3.8	2.1	1.8
Female	2.1	1.0	2.1
Total	2.9	1.5	1.9

Source: CDC, 2008. Deaths: Final Data for 2005. National vital statistics reports; vol. 56, no. 10. Table 17.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_10.pdf [PDF, 3.37MB]

**Acute Viral Hepatitis Incidence (Cases per 100,000 population), 2006**
	Hispanic	White	Hispanic / White Ratio
Hepatitis A	2.34	0.78	3.0
Hepatitis B	1.16	0.99	1.2
Hepatitis C	0.11	0.20	0.6

Source: CDC, 2008. Summary of Notifiable Diseases - United States , 2006. MMWR 2007; 55, no. v. 53. Table 6.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5553.pdf [PDF, 1.42MB]

HEPATITIS A

**Hepatitis A, Acute (Cases per 100,000 population), 2005**
Hispanics	Non-Hispanic White	Healthy People 2010 Goal	Hispanics / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
2.7	0.9	4.3	3.0

Source: CDC 2007. Healthy People 2010 Database. Table 14-06.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/scripts/data2010

**Hepatitis A, Acute (Cases per 100,000 population), 2006**
Hispanic	White	Hispanic / White Ratio
2.34	0.78	3.0

Source: CDC, 2008. Summary of Notifiable Diseases - United States , 2006. MMWR 2007; v. 55, no. 53. Table 6.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5553.pdf [PDF, 1.42MB]

HEPATITIS B

At a glance – Adults (Hepatitis B):

**Acute Hepatitis B in adults, aged 19-24 years, and high risk groups (Cases per 100,000 population), 2005**
Hispanic	Non-Hispanic White	Healthy People 2010 Goal	Hispanic/Non- Hispanic White Ratio
3.7	2.8	1.8	1.3

Source: CDC 2007. Healthy People 2010 Database. Table 14-03a.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/scripts/data2010

**Acute Hepatitis B in adults, aged 25-39 years, and high risk groups (Cases per 100,000 population), 2005**
Hispanic	Non-Hispanic White	Healthy People 2010 Goal	Hispanic/Non- Hispanic White Ratio
5.4	6.6	5.2	0.8

Source: CDC 2007. Healthy People 2010 Database. Table 14-03b.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/scripts/data2010

**Acute Hepatitis B in adults, aged 40 years and older, and high risk groups (Cases per 100,000 population), 2005**
Hispanic	Non-Hispanic White	Healthy People 2010 Goal	Hispanic/Non- Hispanic White Ratio
4.3	2.9	3.7	1.5

Source: CDC 2007. Healthy People 2010 Database. Table 14-03c.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/scripts/data2010

**Hepatitis B, Acute (Cases per 100,000 population), 2006**
Hispanic	White	Hispanic / White Ratio
1.16	0.99	1.2

Source: CDC, 2008. Summary of Notifiable Diseases - United States , 2006. MMWR 2007; v. 55, no. 53. Table 6.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5553.pdf [PDF, 1.42MB]

At a glance – Immunization of Adolescents, aged 13 to 15 years old (Hepatitis B):

**Percentage of adolescents aged 13 to 15 years who received 3 or more doses of the hepatitis B vaccination, 2003**
Hispanic	Non-Hispanic White	Healthy People 2010 Goal	Hispanic/Non- Hispanic White Ratio
82%	79%	90%	1.0

Source: CDC 2007. Healthy People 2010 Database. Table 14-27a.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/scripts/data2010

At a glance – Immunization of Children aged 19 to 35 months (Hepatitis B):

**Percentage of children aged 19 to 35 months who received the universally recommended vaccination – 3 doses hepatitis B (hep B) vaccine , 2006**
Hispanic	Non-Hispanic White	Healthy People 2010 Goal	Hispanic/Non- Hispanic White Ratio
94%	94%	90%	1.0

Source: CDC 2009. Healthy People 2010 Database. Table 14-22c.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/scripts/data2010

HEPATITIS C

**Hepatitis C, Acute (Cases per 100,000 population), 2006**
Hispanic	White	Hispanic / White Ratio
0.11	0.20	0.6

Source: CDC, 2008. Summary of Notifiable Diseases - United States , 2006. MMWR 2007; v. 55, no. 53. Table 6.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5553.pdf [PDF, 1.42MB]

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