Table 1.

CLD)mortality rates by CLD case definition and demographic factor–Connecticut, 2004

Category	Conventional case definition			Expanded case definition			Expanded and confirmed by medical record review
	n (%)	Rate†	P ‡	n (%)	Rate†	P ‡	n (%)	Rate†	P ‡
Total	282	8.1		616	17.7		550	15.8
Sex
Female	100 (35.5)	5.6	Ref.	208 (33.8)	11.7	Ref.	186 (33.8)	10.4	Ref.
Male	182 (64.5)	10.8	<0.001	408 (66.2)	24.1	<0.001	364 (66.2)	21.5	<0.001
Age, years
<45	37 (13.1)	1.8	<0.001	87 (14.2)	4.1	<0.001	80 (14.6)	3.8	<0.001
45–64	133 (47.2)	15.0	0.0002	266 (43.3)	30.0	<0.001	242 (44.0)	27.2	<0.001
≥65	112 (39.7)	23.9	Ref.	261 (42.5)	55.6	Ref.	228 (41.5)	48.6	Ref.
Year of birth
Born before 1945	147 (52.1)	23.5	Ref.	325 (52.9)	51.9	Ref.	289 (52.6)	46.1	Ref.
Born during 1945–1965	127 (45.0)	11.7	<0.001	265 (43.2)	24.4	<0.001	238 (43.3)	22.0	<0.001
Born after 1965	8 (2.8)	0.5	<0.001	24 (3.9)	1.4	<0.001	23 (4.2)	1.3	<0.001
Race/ethnicity
White, NH	228 (80.9)	8.6	Ref.	474 (77.0)	18.0	Ref.	427 (77.6)	16.2	Ref.
Black, NH	22 (7.8)	7.0	0.33	67 (10.9)	21.2	0.21	56 (10.2)	17.7	0.53
Hispanic	29 (10.3)	7.9	0.63	68 (11.0)	18.4	0.85	61 (11.1)	16.5	0.88
Asian/Pacific Islander, NH	3 (1.1)	2.9	0.04	7 (1.1)	6.7	0.01	6 (1.1)	5.7	0.01
Place of birth
Non-US	43 (15.3)	8.6	0.81	106 (17.3)	21.1	0.09	94 (17.2)	18.7	0.12
US	238 (84.7)	8.2	Ref.	508 (82.7)	17.6	Ref.	454 (82.9)	15.7	Ref.

^†Per 100 000 population.

^‡Pearson χ2-test for differences in mortality rates.

Missing values were not included in calculations.

CLD, chronic liver disease; NH, non-Hispanic.