title: Ethnic differences in cirrhosis of the liver in a British city: alcoholic cirrhosis in South Asian men.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We studied the ethnic origin of cirrhotic patients retrospectively over the 14-year period 1987-2000 and compared the ethnic make-up of the cirrhotic patients with the ethnic make-up of the local catchment population.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Of 381 cirrhotics, 64.1% were white, 29.1% South Asian, 4.7% Afro-Caribbeans and 2.1% other races. These proportions were different from those of the local community in that South Asians were over-represented and Afro-Caribbeans were under-represented. Alcohol was the commonest cause of cirrhosis (60.9%) and South Asian non-Moslem males with alcoholic cirrhosis were over-represented and were younger at diagnosis than white alcoholic cirrhotics.
authors.affiliation: Gastroenterology Unit, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Douds
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cox
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Iqbal
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Cooper
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001210:Asia, Southeastern / Q000208:ethnology; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014505:Urban Population