Table 1:
Baseline clinical and demographic characteristics
| n=20,121 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Hispanic N=3279 |
White N=9150 |
Black N=4432 |
Asian N=529 |
Other N=2731 |
P Value |
| Age-years | 55±12 | 58±12 | 57±11 | 58±12 | 57±12 | <.0001a |
| Male- n (%) | 2002 (61) | 5292 (58) | 2357 (53) | 318 (60) | 1153 (57) | <.0001c |
| Diagnoses present†- n (%) | ||||||
| Alcohol | 1430 (44) | 3077 (34) | 1263 (29) | 80 (15) | 792 (29) | <.0001c |
| Hepatitis C | 1160 (35) | 3325 (36) | 2509 (57) | 193 (36) | 973 (36) | <.0001c |
| NASH | 810 (25) | 2066 (22) | 792 (18) | 84 (16) | 427 (16) | <.0001c |
| Hepatitis B | 189 (6) | 477 (5) | 545 (12) | 222 (42) | 223 (8) | <.0001c |
| Hepatocellular Carcinoma | 398 (12) | 1386 (15) | 538 (12) | 131 (25) | 372 (14) | <.0001 |
| Diagnoses per patient-mean (IQR) | 1.32 (1-2) | 1.26 (1-2) | 1.35 (1-2) | 1.43 (1-2) | 1.13 (1-2) | <.0001 |
| Median Elixhauser Score-(IQR) | 3 (2-6) | 3 (1-6) | 5 (2-8) | 2 (1-5) | 1 (0-4) | <.0001b |
| Insurance- n (%) | ||||||
| Medicare/Medicaid | 1383 (42) | 4591 (50) | 2581 (58) | 193 (36) | 1298 (48) | <.0001c |
| Private Insurance | 885 (27) | 3733 (41) | 992 (22) | 165 (31) | 1095 (40) | |
| Other | 1011 (31) | 826 (9) | 859 (19) | 171 (32) | 338 (12) | |
| Deaths (%) | 760 (23) | 2624 (29) | 1376 (31) | 112 (21) | 850 (31) | <.0001c |
| Transplant (%) | 107 (3) | 609 (7) | 81 (2) | 27 (5) | 95 (4) | <.0001c |
†
Categories are not mutually exclusive
a
ANOVA
b
Kruksal Wallis test
c
Chi-square