In the United States, one study reports that approximately half of the 1 million persons with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are Asian/Pacific Islanders, most of whom became infected with HBV before arriving in the United States.1
- Asian Americans were twice as likely to develop chronic hepatitis B, as compared to whites, from 2013-2016.
- 2018 surveillance shows that Asian Americans were almost eight times more likely to die from hepatitis B than non-Hispanic whites.
VIRAL HEPATITIS
| Death Rates for Viral Hepatitis, 2017 (all types) | |||
| *Asian/Pacific Islander | Non-Hispanic White | Asian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio | |
| Male | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.1 |
| Female | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| Total | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
Source: CDC 2019. Deaths: Final Data for 2017. National vital statistics reports, vol. 68, no. 9. Table 10.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_09-508.pdf [PDF | 1.76MB]
HEPATITIS A
| Hepatitis A, Acute (Cases per 100,000 population), 2018 | ||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | Non-Hispanic White | Asian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 0.5 | 4.3 | 0.1 |
CDC 2020. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance — United States, 2018. Table 1.2.
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/statistics/2018surveillance/pdfs/2018HepSurveillanceRpt.pdf [PDF | 7.76MB]
HEPATITIS B
| Hepatitis B, Acute (Cases per 100,000 population), 2018 | ||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | Non-Hispanic White | Asian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 |
CDC 2020. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance — United States, 2018. Table 2.2.
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/statistics/2018surveillance/pdfs/2018HepSurveillanceRpt.pdf [PDF | 7.76MB]
HEPATITIS B - CHRONIC
Adults (Chronic Hepatitis B)
| Percentage of reported cases of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, 2013-2016 | ||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | Non-Hispanic White | Asian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 30.1 | 13.5 | 2.2 |
Source: CDC 2018. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance – United States, 2016. Table 3.4.
http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/Statistics/2016Surveillance/index.htm
Death Rate (Hepatitis B)
| Rate per 100,000 of Hepatitis-B-Related Deaths, 2018 | ||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | Non-Hispanic White | Asian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 2.1 | 0.27 | 7.8 |
CDC 2020. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance — United States, 2018. Table 2.7.
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/statistics/2018surveillance/pdfs/2018HepSurveillanceRpt.pdf [PDF | 7.76MB]
Immunization of Adults (Hepatitis B)
| Percentage of adults ages 19-49 years, high risk groups, who ever received 3 or more doses of the hepatitis B vaccination, 2017 | ||
| Asian | Non-Hispanic White | Asian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 39.7 | 36.6 | 1.1 |
Source: CDC 2018. Vaccination Coverage among Adults in the United States, National Health Interview Survey, 2017. Box 2, Table 2.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/adultvaxview/pubs-resources/NHIS-2017.html
Immunization of Adolescents (Hepatitis B)
| Percentage of adolescents aged 13 to 17 years who received 2 doses of measles, mumps, rubella vaccination, 2019 | ||
| Asian | Non-Hispanic White | Asian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 93.0 | 93.1 | 1.0 |
Source: CDC 2020. Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents Aged 13–17 Years — United States, 2019. Supplementary Table 1.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/teenvaxview/pubs-presentations/NIS-teen-vac-coverage-estimates-2019-tables.html
Immunization of Children (Hepatitis B)
Percentage of children aged 19 to 35 months who received the universally recommended vaccination – primary series hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine, 2017 | ||||
| Asian | Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders | Non-Hispanic White | Asian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio | Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 94.7 | 90.7 | 91.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Source: CDC 2018. Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19–35 Months — United States, 2017. Supplementary Table 1.
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/59414
HEPATITIS C - ACUTE
| Hepatitis C, Acute (Cases per 100,000 population), 2018 | ||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | Non-Hispanic White | Asian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 0.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 |
CDC 2020. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance — United States, 2018. Table 3.2.
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/statistics/2018surveillance/pdfs/2018HepSurveillanceRpt.pdf [PDF | 7.76MB]
HEPATITIS C - CHRONIC
Adults (Chronic Hepatitis C)
| Percentage of reported cases of past or present hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, 2013-2016 | ||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | Non-Hispanic White | Asian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 0.8 | 36.4 | 0.02 |
Source: CDC 2018. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance – United States, 2016. Table 4.4
http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/Statistics/2016Surveillance/index.htm
Death Rate (Chronic Hepatitis C)
| Rate per 100,000 of Hepatitis-B-Related Deaths, 2018 | ||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | Non-Hispanic White | Asian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio |
| 1.43 | 3.35 | 0.4 |
CDC 2020. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance — United States, 2018. Table 3.7.
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/statistics/2018surveillance/pdfs/2018HepSurveillanceRpt.pdf [PDF | 7.76MB]
1CDC, 2007. Hepatitis Awareness Month - May 2007. MMWR v. 56, no. 18, page 1. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5618.pdf [PDF | 551KB]
*All data in the above surveys relate to non-Hispanic Asians/Pacific Islanders