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

Table 5

Proportion of HE patients with HE event.

Event count category	Number (%) of patients with HE (Symphony Health APLD claims database)	Number (%) of patients with HE (serum ammonia analysis cohort)
1 event	19,271 (32.6)	1683 (27.2)
2 events	8895 (15.0)	1194 (19.3)
3 events	6204 (10.5)	790 (12.8)
4 events	4575 (7.7)	550 (8.9)
5 or more events	20,225 (34.2)	1970 (31.8)

APLD: anonymized patient-level data; HE: hepatic encephalopathy.