Table 2 Age and ethnicity‐specific lupus mortality, US 1979–98.

Age (years)		African‐Americans			Caucasians
		Death count	Person‐years	Rate (per million)	Death count	Person‐years	Rate (per million)
Women
<1		1	6 024 199	0.2*	1	29 908 146	0.0*
1–4		2	22 690 531	0.1*	1	114 441 964	0.0*
5–9		18	27 569 778	0.7*	9	139 554 938	0.1*
10–14		78	27 200 249	2.9*	55	141 387 170	0.4*
15–19		238	28 181 188	8.4	215	149 455 724	1.4
20–24		524	28 181 242	18.6	416	160 295 959	2.6
25–34		1361	54 941 895	24.8	1159	340 638 576	3.4
35–44		1413	43 652 179	32.4	1464	300 781 124	4.9
45–54		1026	29 761 652	34.5	1645	228 985 726	7.2
55–64		793	22 855 496	34.7	2022	199 796 890	10.1
65–74		446	17 390 042	25.6	2563	174 990 432	14.6
75–84		217	9 398 417	23.1	2086	110 112 351	18.9
>85		43	3 130 614	13.7	598	39 615 598	15.1
Men
<1	0		6 206 953	0.0*	3	31 499 860	0.0*
1–4	0		23 213 081	0.0*	0	120 513 509	0.0*
5–9	1		28 220 769	0.0*	5	147 068 512	0.0*
10–14	10		27 796 276	0.4*	18	149 102 562	0.1*
15–19	42		28 545 008	1.5	52	157 350 195	0.3
20–24	81		26 589 722	3.0	58	166 266 482	0.3
25–34	161		48 800 091	3.3	195	347 376 078	0.6
35–44	168		37 472 213	4.5	279	299 839 777	0.9
45–54	127		24 752 290	5.1	320	221 873 923	1.4
55–64	103		18 067 594	5.7	461	181 183 803	2.5
65–74	81		12 268 431	6.6	723	138 295 026	5.2
75–84	35		5 416 164	6.5	522	66 647 446	7.8
>85	12		1 336 560	9.0	129	15 494 862	8.3

*Rates unreliable, owing to the small number of deaths.