Prevalence of Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Among Adults in the United States, 2001-2016

Terrence Wong; Katherine Dang; Sanah Ladhani; Ashwani K Singal; Robert J Wong

doi:10.1001/jama.2019.2276

Prevalence of Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Among Adults in the United States, 2001-2016

JAMA. 2019 May 7;321(17):1723-1725. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.2276.

Authors

Terrence Wong¹, Katherine Dang¹, Sanah Ladhani¹, Ashwani K Singal², Robert J Wong¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Highland Hospital, Oakland, California.
² Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls.

Abstract

This national survey study uses National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data to estimate the prevalence of alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD) overall and with stage 2 or greater and stage 3 or greater fibrosis among US adults from 2001 to 2016.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Fatty Liver, Alcoholic / complications
Fatty Liver, Alcoholic / epidemiology*
Fatty Liver, Alcoholic / ethnology
Female
Humans
Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / epidemiology
Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / ethnology
Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / etiology
Logistic Models
Male
Middle Aged
Nutrition Surveys
Prevalence
United States / epidemiology
Young Adult