Figure 4.
Age- and sex-adjusted mortality for patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) by race. The age- and sex-adjusted ALD-related mortality (per 100,000 persons) decreased from 6.3 (1980) to 4.5 (2003) among Caucasians, 11.6 (1980) to 4.1 (2003) among African Americans, and 8.0 (1980) to 3.7 (2003) among the “other” non-Caucasian, non-African-American race group.