Epidemiological Information

Cirrhosis Epidemiological 

Although liver cirrhosis is an important public health concern, the epidemiological is often unknown.  The reason is that people with cirrhosis often diagnosis with Hepatitis B or alcoholism, and people with cirrhosis often goes asymptomatic until the end stage of liver disease. So it is hard to know when people started with cirrhosis or from the underlying disease such as hepatitis and alcoholism begin. However, according to CDC some incidence with cirrhosis in the U.S was recorded. There is estimated to be 360 cases per year per 100,000 of population in the U.S. with cirrhosis, and it is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S, but there has been 25% decline since 1980, possibly due to reduced alcohol consumption, hepatitis B Vaccination, improved supportive care and liver transplantation. Cirrhosis is accounted for more than 30,000 deaths per year in the U.S and is one of the lading causes of death in people over aged 65 years.

The graph below show liver cirrhosis in the U.S, the darker the green color show more incident, the lighter the color such as white show less incident of cirrhosis.

Beside liver disease, there are some other factor could contribute with cirrhosis, such as:

• Increases with age
• Etiology dependent
• In women there is greater likelihood of progression to cirrhosis than in men from ingesting the same amount of alcohol
• People from Asia and sub-Saharan Africa have high rates of chronic hepatitis B and C infection

References: 

Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis. (2015, February 6). Retrieved April 7, 2015, from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/liver-disease.htm


Scaqlione, S., Kliethermes, S., Gao, G., Shoham, D., Durazo, R., Luke, A., & Volk, M. (2014). The Epidemiology of Cirrhosis in the United States: A Population-based Study. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 4(49), 265-354.