All-Cause Mortality during First Wave of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, New South Wales, Australia, 2009

作者：Muscatello David J^*; Cretikos Michelle A; MacIntyre C Raina

来源：Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010, 16(9): 1396-1402.

DOI：10.3201/eid1609.091723

In temperate countries, death rates increase in winter, but influenza epidemics often cause greater increases. The death rate time series that occurs without epidemic influenza can be called a seasonal baseline. Differentiating observed death rates from the seasonally oscillating baseline provides estimated influenza-associated death rates. During 2003-2009 in New South Wales, Australia, we used a Serfling approach with robust regression to estimate age-specific weekly baseline all-cause death rates. Total differences between weekly observed and baseline rates during May September provided annual estimates of influenza-associated death rates. In 2009, which included our first wave of pandemic (H1N1) 2009, the all-age death rate was 6.0 (95% confidence interval 3.1-8.9) per 100,000 persons lower than baseline. In persons >= 80 years of age, it was 131.6 (95% confidence interval 126.2-137.1) per 100,000 lower. This estimate is consistent with a pandemic virus causing mild illness in most persons infected and sparing older persons.

• 出版日期2010-9