{"id":7000,"date":"2020-09-04T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2020-09-04T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:30:30","slug":"quickstats-prevalence-of-past-or-present-infection-with-hepatitis-b-virus-among-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-by-race-and-hispanic-origin-national-health-and-nutrition-examination-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/09\/04\/7000\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Prevalence of Past or Present Infection with Hepatitis B Virus Among Adults Aged 18 Years or Older, by Race and Hispanic Origin \u2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container d-flex flex-wrap body-wrapper bg-white\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col content content-fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"syndicate\">\n<div class=\"d-flex flex-wrap d-md-block\">\n<div class=\"order-4 w-100\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6935a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6935a8-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The prevalence of past or present infection with hepatitis B virus among adults aged 18 years or older declined from 5.7% in 1999\u20132002 to 4.3% in 2015\u20132018.<\/p>\n<p>A decline among non-Hispanic White (3.5% to 2.1%), non-Hispanic Black (15.6% to 10.8%), and Mexican American (3.5% to 1.8%) adults also occurred over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Prevalence was higher among non-Hispanic Black adults than among both non-Hispanic White and Mexican American adults for all periods.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b> Kruszon-Moran D, Paulose-Ram R, Martin CB, Barker L, McQuillan G. Prevalence and trends in hepatitis B virus infection in the United States, 2015\u20132018. NCHS Data Brief, no 361. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db361.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db361.htm<\/a>; National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999\u20132002 to 2015-2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6935a8.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6935a8.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prevalence of past or present infection with hepatitis B virus among adults aged 18 years or older declined from 5.7% in 1999\u20132002 to 4.3% in 2015\u20132018. A decline among non-Hispanic White (3.5% to 2.1%), non-Hispanic Black (15.6% to 10.8%), and Mexican American (3.5% to 1.8%) adults also occurred over the same period. Prevalence was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24003,50899,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}