A Comparative Study of Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis vs. Non-Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients from a Cohort with Chronic Alcohol Dependencedoi:10.3390/genes14040780ALCOHOLISMBINGE drinkingHEPATITISLOGISTIC regression analysisALCOHOL drinkingThe rate of alcoholic hepatitis (AH) has risen in recent year...
evidence of obesity using qualitative diagnosis codes or body mass index (if available), smoking status using the latest value recorded before the index date, and alcohol abuse and related conditions, such as alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic hepatic failure, or alcoholic liver di...
CAD indicates coronary artery disease; CHF, congestive heart failure; CKD, chronic kidney disease; HBV, hepatitis B virus; HCV, hepatitis C virus; NAFLD, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; and error bars, 95% CIs. Table 1. Trends in the Clinical and Demographic Characteristics of the Study ...
Thanks to the introduction of direct-acting antivirals to combat Hepatitis C, the proportion of HCV-related cirrhosis fell during the observation period to around one third. On the other hand, the frequency of cirrhosis caused by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease quadrupled during the same period,...
Chronic liver disease death (excluding liver cancer) was defined as death from nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases, liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, alcoholic liver diseases, and chronic hepatitis (ICD-9: 571; ICD-10: K70, K73, and K74).15 Overall, 95.6% of causes of death were determined ei...
Consistent with previous studies in the same cohort28,29, deaths due to chronic liver diseases included deaths from fibrosis, cirrhosis, alcoholic liver diseases, and chronic hepatitis (ICD-9: 571.0, 571.2–571.6, 571.8, and 571.9; ICD-10: K70, K73, and K74). Classification of CLD from ...
3857 were excluded owing to a diagnosis of COPD at the time of the health check-up; and 15,131 were excluded due to diagnoses of liver disease such as viral liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and hepatocellular carcinoma at the time of the health check-up, to limit the co...
Coffee intake is associated with reduced risk of liver cancer and chronic liver disease as reported in previous studies, including prospective ones conducted in Asian populations where hepatitis B viruses (HBVs) and hepatitis C viruses (HCVs) are the dominant risk factors. Yet, prospective studies ...
The diagnostic specificity of %CDT calculated at the cut-off of 3% was 93.5% in patients with unspecifically increased γ-GT, 88.2% in hepatitis patients and 70.0% in patients with non-alcohol-dependent liver cirrhosis. %CDT was more specific in these patient collectives than MCV, and ...
The ICD-9-CM diagnostic codes defined chronic liver disease, including viral hepatitis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and alcoholic liver disease, and other causes of liver cirrhosis (Supplement Table 1). A previous validation study used the hospital administrative database and reported a positive ...