Table 3.6. Number and rates* of newly reported cases^† of chronic hepatitis C virus infection, by demographic characteristics — United States, 2019

Table 3.6. Number and rates* of newly reported cases† of chronic hepatitis C virus infection, by demographic characteristics — United States, 2019

Table 2.2.
Characteristics	No.	Rate*
Total §	123,312	56.7
Age (yrs)
0-19	951	1.8
20-29	21,263	72.3
30-39	31,383	109.1
40-49	19,035	72.1
50-59	22,748	79.6
≥60	26,142	50.8
Sex
Male	79,012	73.9
Female	43,966	39.7
Race/ethnicity
American Indian/Alaska Native	1,657	86.7
Asian/Pacific Islander	755	7.1
Black, non-Hispanic	9,566	31.0
White, non-Hispanic	49,814	34.0
Hispanic	3,913	14.1
Urbanicity ¶
Urban	96,039	52.1
Rural	23,022	67.7
HHS Region: Regional Office #
Region 1: Boston	5,863	42.5
Region 2: New York	10,272	36.3
Region 3: Philadelphia	22,943	78.6
Region 4: Atlanta	33,523	68.4
Region 5: Chicago	20,606	45.0
Region 6: Dallas	8,069	75.4
Region 7: Kansas City	7,738	54.7
Region 8: Denver	5,672	46.3
Region 9: San Francisco	U	U
Region 10: Seattle	8,626	60.1

Source: CDC, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
* Rates per 100,000 population.
† Reported cases that met the classification criteria for a confirmed case. For the case definition, see https://ndc.services.cdc.gov/conditions/hepatitis-c-chronic/.
§ Numbers reported in each category might not add up to the total number of reported cases in a year because of cases with missing data or, in the case of race/ethnicity, cases categorized as “Other.”
¶ Urbanicity was categorized according to the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) urban-rural classification scheme for counties and county-equivalent entities (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/urban_rural.htm). Large central metropolitan, large fringe metropolitan, medium metropolitan, and small metropolitan counties were grouped as urban. Micropolitan and noncore counties were grouped as rural.
# US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regions were categorized according to the grouping of states and US territories assigned under each of the 10 HHS regional offices (https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/iea/regional-offices/index.html). For the purposes of this report, regions with US territories (Regions 2 and 9) contain data from states only.
U: data were unavailable.

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During 2019, the rates of newly reported chronic hepatitis C were highest among persons aged 30–39 years, males, American Indian/Alaska Native persons, those living in rural areas, and persons in US Department of Health and Human Services Region 3 (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia). Chronic hepatitis C data was unavailable from all states in Health and Human Services Region 9. Among all 123,312 cases of chronic hepatitis C newly reported during 2019, 25% occurred among persons aged 30–39 years; 64% occurred among males; and 78% occurred in urban areas. Race/ethnicity information was only available for 65,705 (53%) cases of newly reported chronic hepatitis C; after excluding cases with missing race/ethnicity information, 76% of cases occurred among non-Hispanic White persons.

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