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Liver cirrhosis category and year
Male
Female
White
Black
Hisp.
nonHisp.
Alcohol-related liver cirrhosis***
2004
11.5
6.0
0.9
5.7
2.1
2.2
-
2.0
2003
12.2
1.4
6.2
2.3
2002
12.9
5.8
2.4
5.9
0.7
2001
14.2
0.6
7.1
0.3
2000
15.0
6.1
1.2
0.2
2.8
1999
14.1
8.2
2.5
1998
1.8
2.6
1997
15.5
3.1
8.5
2.7
3.2
1996
16.8
6.3
3.3
9.7
0.5
3.6
1995
17.7
6.4
10.5
0.4
3.8
1994
18.5
6.5
11.8
2.9
0.8
4.1
1993
3.5
11.3
1992
18.0
4.5
12.5
4.4
1991
17.4
4.7
12.6
5.2
Specified liver cirrhosis without mention of alcohol***
1.3
1.0
0.1
1.1
Unspecified liver cirrhosis without mention of alcohol***
9.1
9.5
6.7
1.5
10.6
10.4
6.9
1.9
1.6
10.7
10.0
6.6
11.2
3.0
7.0
7.5
7.3
3.4
* Rates per 100,000 population computed by the direct method, using as the standard population the age distribution of the total population of the United States as enumerated in 2000.
** Excludes deaths for which Hispanic origin was unknown and all deaths from Oklahoma and New Hampshire where Hispanic origin was unknown in more than 90 percent of all cirrhosis deaths.
- There were no deaths in this table cell.
*** See the source report for ICD codes included in this table.
Source: Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System. Yoon, Y.H., and Yi, H. Surveillance Report #79: Liver Cirrhosis Mortality in the United States, 1970–2004. Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research (August 2007).