Volume 30, Number 9—September 2024
Dispatch
Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–20191
Amy M. Schwartz, Christina A. Nelson, and Alison F. Hinckley
Table
Characteristics of Lyme disease diagnoses according to Medicare fee-for-service claims data versus cases identified by national surveillance in a population of persons > 65 years of age, United States, 2016–2019*
| Characteristic | High-incidence states |
Neighboring states |
Low-incidence states |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicare | Surveillance | Medicare | Surveillance | Medicare | Surveillance | |||
| Person-years | 72,298 | NA | 5,958 | NA | 10,009 | NA | ||
| Diagnoses or cases, no. | 72,455 | 31,879 | 5,978 | 1,714 | 10,052 | 590 | ||
| Diagnoses or cases, % | 81.9 | 93.3 | 6.7 | 5.0 | 11.3 | 1.7 | ||
| Incidence among men | 422.9 | 71.0 | 38.3 | 4.6 | 30.1 | 0.6 | ||
| Incidence among women | 321.3 | 46.6 | 33.4 | 3.0 | 29.2 | 0.5 | ||
| Occurring in May–August, % | 59.5 | 72.2 | 58.2 | 79.9 | 45.8 | 66.2 | ||
| Median incidence, 2016–2019 (range) | 346.9 (337.2–417.8) |
57.1 (52.9–65.6) | 35.3 (27.9–36.6) | 3.6 (2.4–5.3) | 29.4 (27.7–31.6) |
0.6 (0.5–0.6) |
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*Incidence calculated as diagnoses/100,000 person-years in Medicare fee-for-service or cases/100,000 population among each surveillance subcategory. NA, not applicable.
1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases; August 7–10, 2022, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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