Table 2.

Aetiology of the enrolled patients with liver cirrhosis by gender among hospitalised patients in 28 top-ranking hospitals in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, 2015–2019

Aetiologies of cirrhosis	Male and female		Male		Female		P value
	Cases	Hospitalisation rate	Cases	Hospitalisation rate	Cases	Hospitalisation rate
	n (%)	% (95% CI)	n (%)	% (95% CI)	n (%)	% (95% CI)
Viral hepatitis cirrhosis	11 577 (69.88)	4.51 (4.42 to 4.59)	8420 (74.25)	7.16 (7.01 to 7.31)	3157 (60.41)	2.27 (2.19 to 2.35)	<0.001
Non-viral hepatitis cirrhosis	4649 (28.06)	1.81 (1.76 to 1.86)	2587 (22.81)	2.20 (2.12 to 2.29)	2062 (39.46)	1.48 (1.42 to 1.55)	<0.001
Alcoholic cirrhosis	340 (2.05)	0.13 (0.12 to 0.15)	333 (2.94)	0.28 (0.25 to 0.32)	7 (0.13)	0.00 (0.00 to 0.01)	<0.001
Total	16 566 (100.00)	6.45 (6.35 to 6.55)	11 340 (100.00)	9.64 (9.46 to 9.82)	5226 (100.00)	3.75 (3.65 to 3.85)	<0.001