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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Legionnaires’ Disease Incidence and Risk Factors, New York, New York, USA, 2002–2011

Andrea Farnham1Comments to Author , Lisa Alleyne, Daniel Cimini, and Sharon Balter
Author affiliations: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, USA; 1Current affiliation: University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Table 3

Sociodemographic characteristics of persons with community-acquired Legionnaires’ disease, New York, New York, USA, 2002–2011*

Poverty level† and race/ethnicity Cumulative no. cases Average annual incidence/100,000 population
Crude Age-adjusted‡
Very low
White non-Hispanic 53 1.3 0.92
Black non-Hispanic 9 1.9 2.0
Hispanic 4 1.0 1.4
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander/American Indian non-Hispanic 4 0.83 1.5
Other/multirace non-Hispanic 0 0 0
Unknown
 10
Low
White non-Hispanic 130 1.4 1.1
Black non-Hispanic 34 1.5 1.6
Hispanic 13 0.79 1.0
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander/American Indian non-Hispanic 11 0.74 1.1
Other/multirace non-Hispanic 3 0.62 1.2
Unknown
 38
Medium
White non-Hispanic 112 1.3 0.98
Black non-Hispanic 76 1.7 1.8
Hispanic 45 0.92 1.2
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander/American Indian non-Hispanic 7 0.23 0.29
Other/multirace non-Hispanic 4 0.38 0.50
Unknown
 54
High
White non-Hispanic 50 1.3 0.94
Black non-Hispanic 88 1.7 1.9
Hispanic 40 0.75 1.1
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander/American Indian non-Hispanic 6 0.31 0.39
Other/multirace non-Hispanic 3 0.43 0.60
Unknown
 60
Very high
White non-Hispanic 24 2.3 1.8
Black non-Hispanic 78 2.2 2.5
Hispanic 48 1.0 1.4
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander/American Indian non-Hispanic 8 0.98 1.1
Other/multirace non-Hispanic 3 1.1 1.5
Unknown
 35
Highest
White non-Hispanic 20 2.6 2.6
Black non-Hispanic 91 2.7 3.3
Hispanic 55 1.2 1.7
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander/American Indian non-Hispanic 0 0 0
Other/multirace non-Hispanic 1 0.45 0.87
Unknown
 44
Total 1,261

*Eighteen cases could not be geolocated to a census tract and were excluded from the total case count.
†By percentage of residents with household incomes <100% of the federal poverty level according to 2000 U.S. Census data: very low, <5%; low, 5%–9%; medium, 10%–19%; high, 20%–29%; very high, 30%–39%; highest, >40%.
‡Age-adjustment calculations were based on 2000 U.S. Census standard population.

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