Study: Men More Likely to Die From Liver Cirrhosis
A new study published in the Lancet finds that men are more likely to die from liver cirrhosis. Twice as many men compared to women are dying due to live cirrhosis.
In 2017, cirrhosis caused 1.3 million deaths globally. From these, two-thirds were men. Hepatitis B caused the greatest proportion of deaths among men, followed by alcohol-related liver disease.
The study was published in the Lancet and is part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study for 2017. The analysis provides comparable estimates of cirrhosis deaths across 195 countries and territories. Researchers analyzed five underlying causes of cirrhosis: hepatitis B, hepatitis C, alcohol-related liver disease, an advanced form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and other causes.
…use of alcohol takes a particularly high toll on men. This reaffirms our earlier study in 2018 showing there is no safe level of alcohol use,” said Dr. Mohsen Naghavi, senior author on the study, as per, IHME.
More findings from the study
- The number of people living with cirrhosis due to advanced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease more than doubled since 1990, from 4.4 million to 10.3 million in 2017.
- The proportion of all global deaths from cirrhosis increased between 1990 and 2017, from 1.9% to 2.4%.
- Generally, women had a lower proportion of cirrhosis deaths caused by hepatitis B and alcohol-related liver disease than men, and had a higher proportion due to advanced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
- The cirrhosis death rate (age-adjusted) was highest in Egypt in 2017 at 103.3 deaths per 100,000 and lowest in Singapore at 3.7.
- The eight countries with the largest increases in the cirrhosis death rates (age-adjusted) since 1990 were in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
