Reporting the cases of alcohol-associated hepatitis using the National Inpatient Sample data

Natalie Marlowe; Wei-Qi Lin; Suthat Liangpunsakul

doi:10.3748/wjg.v29.i10.1648

Reporting the cases of alcohol-associated hepatitis using the National Inpatient Sample data

World J Gastroenterol. 2023 Mar 14;29(10):1648-1650. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v29.i10.1648.

Authors

Natalie Marlowe¹, Wei-Qi Lin¹, Suthat Liangpunsakul²

Affiliations

¹ Durect Corporation, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States.
² Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States. sliangpu@iu.edu.

Abstract

The letter is to respond to the recent publication "Trends in hospitalization for alcoholic hepatitis from 2011 to 2017: A USA nationwide study" (World J Gastroenterol 2022; 28: 5036-5046). We noticed a significant difference in the total numbers of reported hospitalized alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) patients between this publication and our publication on Alcohol Clin Exp Res (2022; 46: 1472-1481). We believe the number of "AH-related hospitalizations" inflated by the inclusion of patients with non-AH forms of alcohol-associated liver disease.

Keywords: Alcohol-associated liver disease; Alcoholic hepatitis; Hospitalization.

MeSH terms

Hepatitis, Alcoholic* / diagnosis
Hepatitis, Alcoholic* / epidemiology
Hospitalization
Humans
Inpatients
Liver Diseases, Alcoholic*