Leading Causes of Death Among Adults Aged 25 to 44 Years by Race and Ethnicity in Texas During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March to December 2020

Jeremy Samuel Faust; Alexander Junxiang Chen; Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako; Chengan Du; Shu-Xia Li; Harlan M Krumholz; Michael L Barnett

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.6734

Leading Causes of Death Among Adults Aged 25 to 44 Years by Race and Ethnicity in Texas During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March to December 2020

JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Jan 1;182(1):87-90. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.6734.

Authors

Jeremy Samuel Faust¹, Alexander Junxiang Chen², Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako³, Chengan Du⁴, Shu-Xia Li⁴, Harlan M Krumholz⁴, Michael L Barnett⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This cohort study examines mortality data from Texas, a racially and ethnically diverse state, to better understand excess mortality among adults aged 25 to 44 years during early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

MeSH terms

Adult
COVID-19*
Cause of Death / trends*
Female
Humans
Male
Racial Groups / ethnology
Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data*
Texas / epidemiology
Texas / ethnology

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States