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Liver cirrhosis category and year
All races both sexes
White
Black
Male
Female
Alcohol-related liver cirrhosis**
2005
4.2
6.6
2.2
5.4
2.0
2004
4.1
6.5
5.6
1.9
2003
2.1
6.1
2002
5.8
2.3
2001
4.3
6.9
2.4
2000
6.8
2.8
1999
4.4
8.1
1998
2.6
1997
4.5
7.0
8.4
3.2
1996
4.7
7.1
9.5
3.5
1995
4.8
7.3
10.4
3.7
1994
4.9
11.7
1993
11.3
3.8
1992
7.4
12.5
1991
5.0
5.1
1990
5.2
14.7
1989
7.8
15.5
1988
15.6
5.7
1987
7.2
15.7
1986
5.3
1985
16.2
5.9
1984
7.5
2.5
14.8
1983
13.9
1982
7.6
14.2
1981
2.9
16.9
1980
6.4
8.7
3.1
18.8
1979
6.3
8.5
18.5
1978
1977
6.7
8.9
3.4
20.1
8.0
1976
9.3
20.8
1975
3.3
19.5
1974
19.4
8.3
1973
18.4
8.2
1972***
1971
9.0
17.4
1970
17.0
7.9
Specified liver cirrhosis without mention of alcohol**
0.4
0.3
0.5
0.2
0.6
0.7
0.9
1.2
0.8
1.3
1.5
1.4
1.1
1.0
1.6
1.7
1.8
4.6
2.7
3.0
4.0
3.6
Unspecified liver cirrhosis without mention of alcohol**
6.0
6.2
7.7
9.2
9.1
9.6
10.3
9.7
11.2
9.8
12.0
9.9
12.6
12.3
12.4
10.1
12.7
13.3
11.0
14.0
11.4
14.4
15.0
13.0
13.5
* Rates per 100,000 population computed by the direct standardization method, using the Year 2000 total population of the United States as the standard age distribution.
** See the source report for ICD codes included in this table.
*** Deaths based on a 50-percent sample.
Source: Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System. Yoon, Y.H., and Yi, H. Surveillance Report #83: Liver Cirrhosis Mortality in the United States, 1970–2005. Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research (August 2008).