Prevalence of Hepatic Encephalopathy from a Commercial Medical Claims Database in the United States

Table 3

Estimation of cirrhosis prevalence rates by age group and projection to estimated cirrhosis prevalence in the US population.

Age group (years)	Estimated number of patients with cirrhosis from APLD database		Total number of patients in APLD database		Estimated prevalence from APLD database (%)		Total US population (2018)	2018 US cirrhosis prevalence estimates
	Hospital claims	Medical claims	Hospital claims	Medical claims	Hospital claims	Medical claims		Hospital claims	Medical claims
18–25	675	867	4,821,638	12,847,208	0.01	0.01	35,063,183	4909	2366
26–34	3582	4486	5,961,467	15,458,294	0.06	0.03	41,091,493	24,690	11,925
35–44	11,394	14,804	6,423,299	17,317,948	0.18	0.09	41,277,888	73,221	35,286
45–64	96,276	128,013	17,345,958	43,817,387	0.56	0.29	83,904,335	465,698	245,127
≥65	70,645	95,499	16,560,408	36,208,191	0.43	0.26	52,431,193	223,666	138,287

APLD: anonymized patient-level data. US population stratified by age group available at https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/us-demographics/.