Excess non-COVID-19-related mortality among inflammatory bowel disease decedents during the COVID-19 pandemic

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World J Gastroenterol. May 28, 2024; 30(20): 2677-2688
Published online May 28, 2024. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v30.i20.2677

Table 1 Demographics of inflammatory bowel disease decedents from 2006-2021, n (%)

	Overall deaths (2006-2021)		Pre-pandemic deaths (2006-2019)		Pandemic deaths (2020-2021)
	Ulcerative colitis	Crohn’s disease	Ulcerative colitis	Crohn’s disease	Ulcerative colitis	Crohn’s disease
Age (yr)
≥ 65	15136 (77.45)	19278 (63.75)	12304 (77.01)	15706 (62.90)	2832 (79.39)	3572 (67.78)
25-64	4408 (22.55)	10960 (36.25)	3673 (22.99)	9262 (37.10)	735 (20.61)	1698 (32.22)
Gender
Male	9805 (50.17)	13317 (44.04)	8087 (50.62)	10951 (43.86)	1718 (48.16)	2366 (44.90)
Female	9739 (49.83)	16921 (55.96)	7890 (49.38)	14017 (56.14)	1849 (51.84)	2904 (55.10)
Race/ethnicity (not including 2021)
Hispanic	726 (4.10)	732 (2.66)	651 (4.07)	651 (2.61)	75 (4.37)	81 (3.19)
Non-Hispanic white	15740 (88.96)	24661 (89.66)	14249 (89.18)	22448 (89.91)	1491 (86.89)	2213 (87.23)
Non-Hispanic black	948 (5.36)	1843 (6.70)	841 (5.26)	1627 (6.52)	107 (6.24)	216 (8.51)

Numbers represent the crude number of deaths that occurred for each group in each time period and percent is the percent of overall death for each disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease) that occurred in each time period.

Citation: Rotondo-Trivette S, He XY, Samaan JS, Lv F, Truong E, Juels M, Nguyen A, Gao X, Zu J, Yeo YH, Ji FP, Melmed GY. Excess non-COVID-19-related mortality among inflammatory bowel disease decedents during the COVID-19 pandemic. World J Gastroenterol 2024; 30(20): 2677-2688
URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v30/i20/2677.htm
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v30.i20.2677