Characteristics of Hospitalized and Nonhospitalized Patients in a Nationwide Outbreak of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use–Associated Lung Injury — United States, November 2019
| Autor: | Tara C. Jatlaoui, Grant T. Baldwin, Sarah Kabbani, Peter A. Briss, Emily V. Glidden, Emily N. Ussery, Mary Evans, Lisa J. Delaney, Pyone Cho, Lung Injury Response Clinical Task Force, Katrina F. Trivers, Lung Injury Response Epidemiology, Dale A. Rose, Kevin Chatham-Stephens, Katherine Roguski, Yunho Jang, Brian A. King, Christopher M. Jones, Surveillance Task Force, Matthew D. Ritchey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Adolescent Epidemiology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Poison control Lung injury Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Disease Outbreaks Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health Information Management 030225 pediatrics Injury prevention Health care medicine Humans Full Report 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Respiratory distress business.industry Vaping Public health Lung Injury General Medicine Middle Aged United States Hospitalization Emergency medicine Female Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S business |
| Zdroj: | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |
| ISSN: | 1545-861X 0149-2195 |
| Popis: | CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), state and local health departments, and public health and clinical stakeholders are investigating a nationwide outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) (1). As of November 13, 2019, 49 states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S. territories (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands) have reported 2,172 EVALI cases to CDC, including 42 (1.9%) EVALI-associated deaths. To inform EVALI surveillance, including during the 2019-20 influenza season, case report information supplied by states for hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients with EVALI were analyzed using data collected as of November 5, 2019. Among 2,016 EVALI patients with available data on hospitalization status, 1,906 (95%) were hospitalized, and 110 (5%) were not hospitalized. Demographic characteristics of hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients were similar; most were male (68% of hospitalized versus 65% of nonhospitalized patients), and most were aged |
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