Epidemiological profile of alcoholic liver disease hospital admissions in a Latin American country over a 10-year period

作     者：Andre Castro Lyra Lorena Mascarenhas Carneiro de Almeida Yukari Figueroa Mise Lourianne Nascimento Cavalcante 

作者机构：Gastro-Hepatology ServiceHospital Sao RafaelSalvadorBahia 41253-190Brazil Gastro-Hepatology ServiceHospital Universitario Prof.Edgard SantosFederal University of BahiaSalvadorBahia 40301-155Brazil de Saude Coletiva-Federal University of BahiaSalvadorBahia 40110-040Brazil 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Hepatology》 (世界肝病学杂志（英文版）（电子版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第12卷第5期

页      面：230-238页

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Alcoholic liver disease Epidemiology Mortality Liver Cirrhosis Hospital admissions 

摘      要：BACKGROUND Alcoholic liver disease(ALD)is a major cause of chronic liver disease *** To describe the epidemiological profile and mortality rates of patients with ALD admitted to public hospitals in different regions of Brazil from 2006 to *** This is a descriptive study that evaluated aggregate data from the five Brazilian geographic *** A total of 160093 public hospitalizations for ALD were *** was a 34.07%increase in the total number of admissions over 10 years,from 12879 in 2006 to 17267 in *** region with the highest proportion(49.01%)of ALD hospitalizations was Southeast(n=78463).The North region had the lowest absolute number of patients throughout the study period,corresponding to 3.9%of the total(n=6242).There was a 24.72%increase in the total number of ALD deaths between 2006 and *** found that the age group between 50 and 59 years had the highest proportion of both hospitalizations and deaths:28.94%(n=46329)of total hospital admissions and 29.43%(n=28864)of all *** were more frequently hospitalized than women and had the highest proportions of deaths in all *** coefficient rates increased over the years,and simple linear regression analysis indicated a statistically significant upward trend in this mortality(R^2=0.744).CONCLUSION Our study provides a landscape of the epidemiological profile of public hospital admissions due to ALD in *** detected an increase in the total number of admissions and deaths due to ALD over 10 years.