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Table 4 Notification rate of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections per 100,000 in Sweden in 2015 and 2018, by age and sex

From: Monitoring the progress towards the elimination of hepatitis B and C in Sweden: estimation of core indicators for 2015 and 2018

 

2015

2018

Number of new hepatitis C notifications

General population

Notification rate per 100,000 persons* [95%CI]

Number of new hepatitis C notifications

General population

Notification rate per 100,000 persons* [95%CI]

Sex

      

 Women

540

4,920,051

10.98 [10.07–11.94]

474

5,087,747

9.32 [8.50–10.19]

 Men

1028

4,930,966

20.85 [19.59–22.16]

861

5,142,438

16.74 [15.64–17.90]

Age at first dia-gnosis (years)

      

 Infant

1

115,879

0.86 [0.02–4.81]

1

116,840

0.86 [0.02–4.77]

 1–9

14

1,059,458

1.32 [0.72–2.22]

9

1,107,132

0.81 [0.37–1.54]

 10–19

207

1,064,279

19.45 [16.89–22.29]

155

1,155,271

13.42 [11.39–15.70]

 20–29

426

1,338,861

31.82 [28.87–34.99]

387

1,338,915

28.90 [26.10–31.93]

 30–39

279

1,227,641

22.73 [20.14–25.56]

243

1,330,260

18.27 [16.04–20.71]

 40–49

103

1,314,367

7.84 [6.40–9.50]

99

1,294,175

7.65 [6.22–9.31]

 50 + 

539

3,730,533

14.45 [13.25–15.72]

442

3,887,593

11.37 [10.33–12.48]

Country of infection

      

 Sweden

1017

9,851,017

10.32 [9.70–10.98]

871

10,230,185

8.51 [7.96–9.10]

 Other

212

9,851,017

2.15 [1.87–2.46]

193

10,230,185

1.89 [1.63–2.17]

 Un-known

339

  

271

  

Total

1568

9,851,017

15.92 [15.14–16.73]

1335

10,230,185

13.05 [12.36–13.77]

  1. *Among those with a permanent personal identification number. CI confidence interval