TABLE 2.
Cause of death by HCV* status, with hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association between mortality and HCV status, United States, 1991–2003
| Cause of death | HCV+* (no.) |
HCV−* (no.) |
Hazard ratio |
95% confidence interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All liver deaths | 90 | 2 | 45.99 | 11.33, 186.74 |
| HCV | 14 | 0 | ∞ | |
| Other viral hepatitis | 13 | 0 | ∞ | |
| Liver disease | 47 | 1 | 50.92 | 7.03, 368.61 |
| Liver cancer | 16 | 1 | 16.64 | 2.21, 125.48 |
| Cancer (excluding liver) | 56 | 53 | 1.09 | 0.75, 1.58 |
| Cardiovascular | 60 | 28 | 2.21 | 1.41, 3.46 |
| Pulmonary | 8 | 7 | 1.18 | 0.43, 3.26 |
| Trauma/suicide | 106 | 36 | 2.99 | 2.05, 4.36 |
| Drugs/alcohol | 64 | 6 | 10.81 | 4.68, 24.96 |
| Stroke | 13 | 6 | 2.20 | 0.84, 5.79 |
| Infection | 23 | 2 | 11.73 | 2.77, 49.77 |
| Other/unknown | 33 | 8 | 4.23 | 1.95, 9.15 |
| All deaths | 453 | 148 | 3.13 | 2.60, 3.76 |
*
HCV, hepatitis C virus; HCV+, hepatitis C virus antibody positive; HCV−, hepatitis C virus antibody negative.