Liver cirrhosis mortality at national and provincial levels in Iran between 1990 and 2015: A meta regression analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Liver cirrhosis mortality number has increased over the last decades. We aimed to estimate the liver cirrhosis mortality rate and its trends for the first time by sex, age, geographical distribution, and cause in Iran.

Method

Iranian Death Registration System, along with demographic (Complete and Summary Birth History, Maternal Age Cohort and Period methods) and statistical methods (Spatio-temporal and Gaussian process regression models) were used to address the incompleteness and misclassification and uncertainty of death registration system to estimate annual cirrhosis mortality rate. Percentages of deaths were proportionally redistributed into cirrhosis due to hepatitis B, C and alcohol use based on the data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 study.

SUBMITTER: Rezaei N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6333345 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature