TABLE 2.
Annual age- and sex-adjusted rates of newly diagnosed cases and prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection (per 100,000 population) among First Nations and non-First Nations persons, Manitoba, 1991 to 2002
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| Year | Cases, n | Rate | Cases, n | Rate | Rate ratio | Cases, n | Prevalence | Cases, n | Prevalence | |
| 1991/1992 | * | 30 | 2.71 | * | 30 | 2.80 | ||||
| 1993 | 7 | 19.61 | 80 | 7.34 | 2.7 | 7 | 11.41 | 110 | 10.23 | 1.1 |
| 1994 | 22 | 37.01 | 217 | 19.85 | 1.9 | 29 | 46.08 | 325 | 30.01 | 1.5 |
| 1995 | 87 | 141.56 | 478 | 43.8 | 3.2 | 116 | 180.95 | 792 | 73.14 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 71 | 107.93 | 479 | 43.95 | 2.5 | 184 | 281.23 | 1219 | 112.95 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 87 | 140.66 | 503 | 46.21 | 3.0 | 263 | 394.95 | 1671 | 154.76 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 94 | 160.51 | 582 | 53.59 | 3.0 | 352 | 521.42 | 2161 | 201.03 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 87 | 144.96 | 485 | 44.53 | 3.3 | 433 | 629.49 | 2551 | 237.16 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 57 | 88.29 | 477 | 43.69 | 2.0 | 471 | 656.34 | 2915 | 270.37 | 2.4 |
| 2001 | 89 | 146.85 | 596 | 54.36 | 2.7 | 539 | 733.84 | 3364 | 311.62 | 2.4 |
| 2002 | 69 | 101.53 | 420 | 38.32 | 2.6 | 598 | 801.71 | 3621 | 334.77 | 2.4 |
| Cumulative | 671 | 91.10 | 4347 | 36.63 | 2.5 | |||||
*
Suppressed due to small number