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- The study investigates how breaking down racial and ethnic data impacts the understanding of tuberculosis (TB) among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations in the U.S.
- Analysis of data from 2001 to 2020 showed that TB incidence was significantly higher in non-Hispanic AI/AN alone individuals compared to the overall AI/AN group.
- Differences in health risk factors were noted between non-Hispanic AI/AN and multiracial/Hispanic AI/AN individuals, indicating that not including the latter in studies could lead to misleading conclusions about health disparities.
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To examine impacts of racial and ethnic disaggregation on the characterization of tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons in the United States. Using data reported to the National Tuberculosis Surveillance System during 2001 to 2020, we compared annual age-adjusted TB incidence and the frequency of TB risk factors among 3 AI/AN analytic groups: non-Hispanic AI/AN alone persons, multiracial/Hispanic AI/AN persons, and all AI/AN persons (aggregate of the first 2 groups). During 2009 to 2020, annual TB incidence (cases per 100 000 persons) among non-Hispanic AI/AN alone persons (range = 3.87-8.56) was on average 1.9 times higher than among all AI/AN persons (range = 1.89-4.70). Compared with non-Hispanic AI/AN alone patients with TB, multiracial/Hispanic AI/AN patients were significantly more likely to be HIV positive (prevalence ratio [PR] = 2.05) and to have been diagnosed while a resident of a correctional facility (PR = 1.71), and significantly less likely to have experienced homelessness (PR = 0.53) or died during TB treatment (PR = 0.47). Racial and ethnic disaggregation revealed significant differences in TB epidemiology among AI/AN analytic groups. Exclusion of multiracial/Hispanic AI/AN persons from AI/AN analytic groups can substantively affect estimates of racial and ethnic health disparities. ( 2024;114(2):226-236. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307498).
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