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Sex, or age, and year
Chronic liver disease & cirrhosis
Alcoholic psychoses
Alcohol dependence syndrome
Any
Alcoholic
Other specified
Unspecified
Nondependent abuse of alcohol
U.S. Total
2006
4.7
5.5
5.4
5.6
5.8
2.2
2005
4.6
5.9
5.0
6.5
2.4
2004
5.3
6.1
6.3
3.8
2.7
2003
4.9
2.1
2002
6.2
6.6
4.5
2001
5.1
6.4
5.2
3.5
2000
6.7
3.6
1999
6.0
3.1
1998
3.3
1997
5.7
7.2
7.8
4.1
7.3
1996
1995
7.0
6.8
7.5
1994
7.7
7.4
7.9
1993
8.2
8.5
9.0
1992
8.8
9.7
8.7
9.3
11.6
2.6
1991
9.1
8.4
8.6
8.9
4.2
1990
9.5
9.9
10.3
10.9
3.2
1989
10.0
12.0
1988
10.7
9.4
9.2
6.9
1987*
1986*
10.4
8.0
8.1
1985*
1984*
10.6
11.1
9.8
10.5
1983*
11.2
10.2
11.5
4.0
1982*
7.1
8.3
12.5
1981*
12.1
11.8
15.3
3.4
1980*
7.6
13.7
1979*
12.6
12.7
14.8
2.8
Sex: Male
–
2.5
4.3
4.4
2.9
3.0
10.8
12.2
11.7
9.6
11.4
11.0
3.9
10.1
12.9
11.3
13.3
Sex: Female
4.8
2.0
1.8
1.7
3.7
1.9
14.2
11.9
13.0
14.0
14.1
13.4
15.9
14.9
13.9
15.6
16.6
Age: 15–24 years
1.6
1.4
0.8
1.0
12.4
15.0
13.8
13.2
13.6
2.3
Age: 25–44 years
12.8
Age: 45–64 years
13.1
15.2
14.3
Age: 65+ years
Note: Data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) of non-Federal U.S. short-stay hospitals conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.
– There were fewer than 30 NHDS records for this cell of the table. Data are not reported because of questionable reliability.
* This is the period before implementation of a new sample design. Some of the differences between the 1979–1987 statistics and those of later years may be due to sampling error rather than changes in hospital utilization patterns.
Source: Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System. Chen, C.M., and Yi, H. Surveillance Report #84: Trends in Alcohol-Related Morbidity Among Short-Stay Community Hospital Discharges, United States, 1979–2006. Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research (August 2008)