Gender Differences Among Patients Hospitalized With Cirrhosis in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Gender disparities exist in outcomes among patients with cirrhosis. We sought to evaluate the role of gender on hospital course and in-hospital outcomes in patients with cirrhosis to help better understand these disparities.

Study

We analyzed data from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS), years 2009 to 2013, to identify patients with any diagnosis of cirrhosis. We calculated demographic and clinical characteristics by gender, as well as cirrhosis complications. Our primary outcome was inpatient mortality. We used logistic regression to associate baseline characteristics and cirrhosis complications with inpatient mortality.

Results

Our cohort included 553,017 patients with cirrhosis admitted from 2009 to 2013. Women made up 39% of the cohort; median

SUBMITTER: Rubin JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6706332 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature