National Healthcare Quality Report 2004

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Table 1.94a: Hospitalizations for adult asthma per 10,000 population age 18 and over, United States, 1998 and 2001

	2001		1998
Population group	Rate^a	Standard error	Rate^a	Standard error
Total	12.5	0.6	12.5	0.6
Age (not age adjusted)
18-64	10.7	0.8	11.3	0.7
65 and over	21.4	2.0	17.7	1.6
Race^b
American Indian or Alaska Native only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Asian or Pacific Islander only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Asian only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Black or African American only	21.4	2.1	26.0	3.5
White only	8.0	0.6	8.3	0.5
Ethnicity
Hispanic or Latino	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Not Hispanic or Latino	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Black or African American	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
White	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender
Male	6.8	0.5	6.4	0.8
Female	17.6	1.0	18.1	0.8

^a Rates are age adjusted.

^b Race classification changed in 2000. Data for 2000 and later years may not be comparable to data from previous years.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality or confidentiality.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Discharge Survey.

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