Ethnic differences in cirrhosis of the liver in a British city: alcoholic cirrhosis in South Asian men.
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.
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Gastroenterology Unit, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK.
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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