Table 2.

Characteristics of patients with cirrhosis identified in the APLD claims database.

Parameter	Number of patients
Total number of patient claims in the United States	272,256
Medical claims	234,780
Hospital claims	190,697
Age (years) (n)
18–25	991
26–34	5106
35–44	16,824
45–64	143,218
≥65	106,117
Sex (n (%))
Female	125,340 (46)
Male	146,907 (54)
Blanks	9 (0)
Primary payer (n (%))
Medicare	142,443 (52)
Medicaid	62,159 (23)
Government	4120 (2)
Commercial	56,067 (21)
Cash	2468 (1)
Others	2884 (1)
Blanks	2115 (1)

APLD: anonymized patient-level data.