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Cirrhosis Due to Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Hospitalizations in Belgrade, Serbia: A 10-Year Retrospective
BACKGROUND: Cirrhosis due to alcohol-related liver disease (ALD cirrhosis) is a significant burden to health systems worldwide. We aimed to determine the trends in hospitalization frequency due to ALD cirrhosis and to analyze their characteristics. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used data from...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9647601/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36415809 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v51i10.10985 |
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author | Milovanovic, Tamara Lugonja, Sofija Pantic, Ivana Miltenovic, Svetlana Vlaisavljevic, Zeljko Mardani, Abbas |
author_facet | Milovanovic, Tamara Lugonja, Sofija Pantic, Ivana Miltenovic, Svetlana Vlaisavljevic, Zeljko Mardani, Abbas |
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description | BACKGROUND: Cirrhosis due to alcohol-related liver disease (ALD cirrhosis) is a significant burden to health systems worldwide. We aimed to determine the trends in hospitalization frequency due to ALD cirrhosis and to analyze their characteristics. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used data from the Institute of Public Health of Belgrade database, and included all hospitalization reports which contained code K70.3 (Cirrhosis hepatis alcoholica) as the primary diagnosis, including re-hospitalizations, on the territory of Belgrade, between January 2009 and December 2018. RESULTS: A total of 4644 patients with ALD cirrhosis were hospitalized (male: 4154, 89.45%), with a mean age of 58.83±10.02 years. During the 2009–2018 decade, no difference in the number of ALD cirrhosis hospitalizations in subsequent years was observed. Men more commonly developed esophageal and gastric varices with bleeding compared to women (P=0.037), while women developed acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) almost two-times more often compared to men (P<0.001). Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma were significantly older (P<0.001), while those who developed ascites and splenomegaly were significantly younger compared to those who did not (P<0.001 and P=0.04, respectively). Altogether, complications of portal hypertension were registered and reported with very low frequency, and therefore do not represent actual frequencies of these conditions. The median duration of hospital stay was 9 days (range 0–243). Patients in whom lethal outcome occurred during the hospitalization were significantly older, and more commonly developed chronic renal failure. CONCLUSION: These data offer an important insight into the ALD cirrhosis-related hospitalizations while drawing attention to inadequate coding as an important public health issue at the same time. |
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spelling | pubmed-96476012022-11-21 Cirrhosis Due to Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Hospitalizations in Belgrade, Serbia: A 10-Year Retrospective Milovanovic, Tamara Lugonja, Sofija Pantic, Ivana Miltenovic, Svetlana Vlaisavljevic, Zeljko Mardani, Abbas Iran J Public Health Original Article BACKGROUND: Cirrhosis due to alcohol-related liver disease (ALD cirrhosis) is a significant burden to health systems worldwide. We aimed to determine the trends in hospitalization frequency due to ALD cirrhosis and to analyze their characteristics. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used data from the Institute of Public Health of Belgrade database, and included all hospitalization reports which contained code K70.3 (Cirrhosis hepatis alcoholica) as the primary diagnosis, including re-hospitalizations, on the territory of Belgrade, between January 2009 and December 2018. RESULTS: A total of 4644 patients with ALD cirrhosis were hospitalized (male: 4154, 89.45%), with a mean age of 58.83±10.02 years. During the 2009–2018 decade, no difference in the number of ALD cirrhosis hospitalizations in subsequent years was observed. Men more commonly developed esophageal and gastric varices with bleeding compared to women (P=0.037), while women developed acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) almost two-times more often compared to men (P<0.001). Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma were significantly older (P<0.001), while those who developed ascites and splenomegaly were significantly younger compared to those who did not (P<0.001 and P=0.04, respectively). Altogether, complications of portal hypertension were registered and reported with very low frequency, and therefore do not represent actual frequencies of these conditions. The median duration of hospital stay was 9 days (range 0–243). Patients in whom lethal outcome occurred during the hospitalization were significantly older, and more commonly developed chronic renal failure. CONCLUSION: These data offer an important insight into the ALD cirrhosis-related hospitalizations while drawing attention to inadequate coding as an important public health issue at the same time. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2022-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9647601/ /pubmed/36415809 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v51i10.10985 Text en Copyright © 2022 Milovanovic et al. Published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) |
spellingShingle | Original Article Milovanovic, Tamara Lugonja, Sofija Pantic, Ivana Miltenovic, Svetlana Vlaisavljevic, Zeljko Mardani, Abbas Cirrhosis Due to Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Hospitalizations in Belgrade, Serbia: A 10-Year Retrospective |
title | Cirrhosis Due to Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Hospitalizations in Belgrade, Serbia: A 10-Year Retrospective |
title_full | Cirrhosis Due to Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Hospitalizations in Belgrade, Serbia: A 10-Year Retrospective |
title_fullStr | Cirrhosis Due to Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Hospitalizations in Belgrade, Serbia: A 10-Year Retrospective |
title_full_unstemmed | Cirrhosis Due to Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Hospitalizations in Belgrade, Serbia: A 10-Year Retrospective |
title_short | Cirrhosis Due to Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Hospitalizations in Belgrade, Serbia: A 10-Year Retrospective |
title_sort | cirrhosis due to alcohol-related liver disease hospitalizations in belgrade, serbia: a 10-year retrospective |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9647601/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36415809 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v51i10.10985 |
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