. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Respir Med. 2012 Jan 31;106(4):588–593. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2012.01.002

Table 1.

1989-2007 U.S. decedents with IPF according to ethnicity/race and unadjusted ethno/racial-specific risk for IPF compared with non-Hispanic whites.

	IPF present	IPF absent	% with IPF	OR (95% CI)
White	219020 (87.2)	31989804 (84.4)	0.68	reference
Black	12861 (5.1)	3949958 (10.4)	0.32	0.47 (0.46-0.48)
Hispanics	13599 (5.4)	1366383 (3.6)	0.99	1.45 (1.43-1.48)
Other	5578 (2.2)	632291 (1.7)	0.87	1.29 (1.25-1.32)

Values are counts (percentages of column total); OR = odds ratio, CI = confidence interval; White = non-Hispanic white; Black = non-Hispanic African American; Other = non-Hispanic of other racial category