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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2014 May 15;370(20):1961–1962. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1401831

Table 1.

Cumulative Incidence of Death among 260,048 Patients with Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, or Both, According to Prescribed Treatment (Oregon, 1996–2012, and King County, Washington, 1993–2010).*

Deaths Azithromycin
(N = 162,385
Other Drug
(N = 97,663)
Relative Risk
(95% CI)
Cardiovascular cause
  No. of deaths 0 0 Not determined
  No. of deaths per 1 million doses (95% CI) 0 (0–18.5) 0 (0–30.7)
Other cause
  No. of deaths 3 2 0.90
  No. of deaths per 1 million doses (95% CI) 18.5 (3.8–54.0) 20.5 (2.5–74.0) (0.15–5.40)
*

CI denotes confidence interval.

The group of patients who received other treatment was the reference group.