{"id":7236,"date":"2023-01-13T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2023-01-12T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:15:07","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-who-have-ever-had-hepatitis-by-age-group-and-sex-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/01\/13\/7236\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older Who Have Ever Had Hepatitis, by Age Group and Sex \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7202a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7202a6-F.gif?_=54428\" width=\"348\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, 1.6% of adults aged 18 years or older reported having ever had hepatitis.<\/p>\n<p>The prevalence of hepatitis was lowest among adults aged 18\u201344 years (0.6%) and highest among adults aged \u226565 years (2.7%).<\/p>\n<p>Prevalence increased with age for both men and women. The percentage of adults who ever had hepatitis was higher in men than women aged 45\u201364 years (2.7% versus 1.9%) and \u226565 years (3.2% versus 2.3%) but was similar in adults aged 18\u201344 years (0.5% versus 0.6%).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7202a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7202a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, 1.6% of adults aged 18 years or older reported having ever had hepatitis. The prevalence of hepatitis was lowest among adults aged 18\u201344 years (0.6%) and highest among adults aged \u226565 years (2.7%). Prevalence increased with age for both men and women. The percentage of adults who ever had hepatitis was higher in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63673,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/7238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}