TABLE I.
Demographic characteristics of women with employer-sponsored insurance aged 15–44 years with and without congenital heart defects (CHD), by presence of any CHD and CHD severity, United States –2014
| No CHD | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of eligible women | 6,561 | 1,163 | 5,398 | 2,060,993 |
| Age (in years) | ||||
| 15–19 | 1,792 (27.3%) | 362 (31.1%) | 1,430 (26.5%) | 451,091 (21.9%) |
| 20–24 | 1,067 (16.3%) | 280 (24.1%) | 787 (14.6%) | 382,483 (18.6%) |
| 25–29 | 461 (7.0%) | 99 (8.5%) | 362 (6.7%) | 133,772 (6.5%) |
| 30–34 | 934 (14.2%) | 156 (13.4%) | 778 (14.4%) | 260,714 (12.7%) |
| 35–39 | 1,102 (16.8%) | 151 (13.0%) | 951 (17.6%) | 364,459 (17.7%) |
| 40–44 | 1,205 (18.4%) | 115 (9.9%) | 1,090 (20.2%) | 468,474 (22.7%) |
| Geographic Region† | ||||
| Northeast | 1,210 (19.0%) | 203 (18.0%) | 1,007 (19.2%) | 308,595 (15.4%) |
| Midwest‡ | 1,570 (24.7%) | 285 (25.3%) | 1,285 (24.6%) | 487,598 (24.4%) |
| South | 2,339 (36.8%) | 426 (37.9%) | 1,913 (36.6%) | 843,388 (42.2%) |
| West | 1,239 (19.5%) | 211 (18.8%) | 1,028 (19.6%) | 361,158 (18.1%) |
CHD = congenital heart defect. Data are N= 2,067,554 (100%).
*
Women with ≥1 inpatient codes for a CHD or ≥2 outpatient codes for a CHD separated by >30 days identified in the inpatient or outpatient services claims from 2011–2014.
†
Numbers and percentages may not sum to the expected N or 100% due to missing data on U.S. region;
‡
In the IBM MarketScan Commercial Database, this region is named North Central; all states included in the North Central region in the MarketScan Database map to the U.S. Census Midwest region.