Statistics
The following are the latest statistics available from the National Center for Health Statistics, the American Liver Foundation, and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS):
- Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases are the 12th leading disease-related cause of death in the US. Over 27,000 people in the US die each year from chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.
- Seventy-five percent to 80 percent of cases of cirrhosis could be prevented by eliminating alcohol abuse.
- Approximately 4 million people in the US are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus.
- Between 8,000 and 10,000 people die of hepatitis C annually in the U.S.
- Hepatitis B kills 5,000 people in the U.S. annually, and 125,000 are newly infected each year.