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Prevalence and Incidence of Chronic liver disease

Contents
  1. Chronic liver disease: Introduction
  2. Misdiagnosis
  3. Statistics
  4. Prevalence of Chronic liver disease
  5. Prevalence discussion about Chronic liver disease
  6. About prevalence and incidence of Chronic liver disease
  7. Chronic liver disease: Introduction

Prevalance of Chronic liver disease:

400,000 people ... see also overview of Chronic liver disease.

Prevalance Rate:

approx 1 in 679 or 0.15% or 400,000 people in USA [Source statistic for calcuation: "400,000 people" -- see also general information about data sources]

Prevalance of types of Chronic liver disease:

For details see prevalence of types of Chronic liver disease analysis; summary of available prevalence data:

Chronic liver disease Prevalence: Book Excerpts

Incidence of types of Chronic liver disease:

For details see incidence of types of Chronic liver disease analysis; summary of available incidence by type data:

Prevalance of Chronic liver disease:

Prevalence: 400,000 people (1976-80) (Source: excerpt from Digestive Diseases Statistics: NIDDK)

Death statistics for Chronic liver disease:

The following statistics relate to deaths and Chronic liver disease:

  • 27,035 deaths from alcohol related chronic liver disease and cirrhosis each year in the US 2001 (Deaths: Final Data for 2001, NCHS, CDC)
  • 27,035 people died from chronic liver disease or cirrhosis each year in the US 2001 (Deaths: Final Data for 2001, NCHS, CDC)
  • 13.2 per 100,000 men died from chronic liver disease or cirrhosis in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
  • 6.2 per 100,000 women died from chronic liver disease or cirrhosis in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
  • more statistics...»

More Statistics about Chronic liver disease:

  • Deaths and related statistics
  • Hospitalization statistics
  • All statistics for Chronic liver disease

    Prevalence/Incidence of Chronic liver disease: Online Medical Books

    16 MEDICAL BOOKS ONLINE! Review excerpts from medical books online, free, without registration, for more information about the prevalence and/or incidence of Chronic liver disease.

    Liver abscess: Causes and incidence
    (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

    In pyogenic liver abscesses, the common infecting organisms are Escherichia coli, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Bacteroides, and enterococcus. The infecting organisms may invade the liver directly after a liver wound or they may spread from the lungs, skin, or other organs by the hepatic artery, portal vein, or biliary tract. Pyogenic abscesses are generally multiple and commonly follow cholecystitis, peritonitis, pneumonia, and bacterial endocarditis.

    An amebic abscess results from infection with the protozoa Entamoeba histolytica, the organism that causes amebic dysentery. Amebic liver abscesses usually occur singly, in the right lobe.

    There are 8 to 16 cases of liver abscess for every 100,000 people hospitalized, and there is a 5% to 30% mortality rate. Most cases occur in people in their 60s and 70s.

    » READ BOOK EXCERPT ONLINE »

    Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

    Liver cancer: Causes and incidence
    (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

    The immediate cause of liver cancer is unknown, but it may be a congenital disease in children. Adult liver cancer may result from environmental exposure to carcinogens, such as the chemical compound aflatoxin (a mold that grows on rice and peanuts), thorium dioxide (a contrast medium formerly used in liver radiography), Senecio alkaloids, and possibly androgens and oral estrogens.

    Roughly 30% to 70% of patients with hepatomas also have cirrhosis. (Hepatomas are 40 times more likely to develop in a cirrhotic liver than in a normal one.)

    Whether cirrhosis is a premalignant state or alcohol and malnutrition predispose the liver to develop hepatomas is still unclear. Other risk factors are exposure to the hepatitis C virus and the hepatitis B virus.

    Liver cancer accounts for roughly 1% of all cancers in the United States and for 10% to 50% in Africa and parts of Asia. Liver cancer is most prevalent in men (particularly men older than age 60), and incidence increases with age. It's rapidly fatal, usually within 6 months, from GI hemorrhage, progressive cachexia, hepatic failure, or metastasis.

    » READ BOOK EXCERPT ONLINE »

    Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

    About prevalence and incidence statistics:

    The term 'prevalence' of Chronic liver disease usually refers to the estimated population of people who are managing Chronic liver disease at any given time. The term 'incidence' of Chronic liver disease refers to the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Chronic liver disease diagnosed each year. Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence, but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence. For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.

    Footnotes:
    1. Rose and Mackay, 1998, The Autoimmune Diseases, Third Edition


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