Table 2.
Summary of Cardiorespiratory Emergency Department (ED) Visits to Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Matanuska‐Susitna Valley Area Hospitals Between 2015‐2019
| Diagnosis | ICD‐9‐CM; ICD‐10‐CM codes | All (n) | Sex | Age | Race a | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female (%) | Male (%) | <15 years (%) | 15–65 years (%) | >65 years (%) | Alaskan Native (%) | Non‐Alaskan Native (%) | |||
| Respiratory | |||||||||
| Asthma | 493; J45 | 6422 | 55.8 | 44.2 | 20.5 | 73.5 | 6 | 31.8 | 65.1 |
| COPD | 490‐492, 494, 496; J40‐J44, J47 | 4868 | 53.9 | 46.1 | 0.8 | 62.2 | 36.9 | 22.7 | 74.7 |
| Pneumonia | 480‐486; J12‐J18 | 4889 | 50.1 | 49.9 | 19 | 59.2 | 21.8 | 31.8 | 64.7 |
| Bronchitis | 466; J20‐J22 | 5084 | 56.4 | 43.6 | 22.4 | 65.4 | 12.1 | 29.8 | 66.7 |
| All respiratory | 21263 | 54.2 | 45.8 | 16.1 | 65.7 | 18.2 | 29.2 | 67.6 | |
| Cardiovascular | |||||||||
| Arrhythmia | 427; I46‐I49 | 3256 | 42.3 | 57.7 | 1.4 | 57 | 41.6 | 15.2 | 80.4 |
| Cerebrovascular | 430‐438; I60‐I63, I65‐I69, G45, I23 | 868 | 47.7 | 52.3 | 0 | 48.3 | 51.7 | 15.9 | 78.8 |
| Ischemic | 410‐414; I20‐I22, I24‐I25 | 361 | 32.1 | 67.9 | 0.3 | 51.8 | 47.9 | 17.2 | 77.3 |
| Myocardial b | 410; I21‐I22 | 141 | 31.2 | 68.8 | 0 | 61 | 39 | 22 | 68.8 |
| Heart failure | 428; I50 | 871 | 39.5 | 60.5 | 0.1 | 53.6 | 46.3 | 31.9 | 65 |
| All cardiovascular | 5356 | 42 | 58 | 0.9 | 54.7 | 44.4 | 18.2 | 77.4 | |
| Total | 26619 | 51.7 | 48.3 | 13.1 | 63.5 | 23.5 | 27 | 69.6 | |
| Anchorage | Fairbanks North Star | Matanuska‐Susitna | |||||||
| 18279 | 4793 | 3547 | |||||||
a
Percentages may add to less than 100%; hospitalizations with “unknown” race was excluded.
b
Myocardial diagnoses are a subset of ischemic diagnoses; hence, myocardial primary diagnoses are not included in the total cardiovascular category.