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Liver Diseases: Alcoholic Drinks

Volume 458: debated on Tuesday 13 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many diagnoses of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver there were in each of the last 10 years, broken down by age. (124017)

Information regarding the number of diagnoses of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver is collected centrally only for individuals suffering from this condition in secondary (for example, hospital) care. The information is shown in the following table.

All diagnoses count of episodes for alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, 1996-97 to 2005-06—national health service hospitals: England

1996-97

1997-98

1998-99

1999-2000

2000-01

0 to five

0

0

0

0

0

Five to 14

0

0

0

0

1

15 to 24

6

14

7

13

11

25 to 34

270

334

343

375

332

35 to 44

1,320

1,520

1,495

1,671

1,827

45 to 54

2,104

2,441

2,609

3,078

3,236

55 to 64

1,736

2,004

2,137

2,506

2,599

65 to 74

1,181

1,178

1,264

1,515

1,442

75 to 84

288

362

415

468

458

85 to 120

33

29

30

47

48

Age not known

29

51

45

9

19

Total

6,967

7,933

8,345

9,682

9,973

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

0 to five

0

0

0

0

0

Five to 14

0

0

1

1

15 to 24

7

19

27

18

26

25 to 34

354

399

455

550

642

35 to 44

1,830

2,038

2,412

2,759

3,123

45 to 54

3,437

3,823

4,380

5,024

5,961

55 to 64

2,836

3,317

3,888

4,924

5,636

65 to 74

1,581

2,074

2,410

2,568

2,953

75 to 84

443

578

559

736

915

85 to 120

46

60

52

72

89

Age not known

52

35

22

33

44

Total

10,586

12,343

14,206

16,684

19,390

Notes:

1. Finished consultant episode (FCE) An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have one episode of care within a year.

2. All diagnoses count as episodes. These figures represent a count of all FCEs where the diagnosis was mentioned in any of the 14 (seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in a HES record.

3. K.70.3 Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver—ungrossed data: Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed).

Source:

Hospital episode statistics, The Information Centre for health and social care