Clinical features of alcoholic hepatitis in latinos and caucasians: A single center experience

Table 3 Type of alcoholic hepatitis, parameters of liver injury and treatment n (%)

	Caucasian	Latino	All patients	P value
Type of AH	137	64	201	0.321
Acute AH with no history of cirrhosis	94 (68.6)	49 (76.6)	143 (71.1)
AH on chronic cirrhosis	43 (31.4)	15 (23.4)	58 (28.9)
DF score at day 0	137	64	201	0.794
mean ± SD	47.7 (37.2)	46.6 (22.1)	47.3 (33.1)
DF < 32	44 (32.1)	12 (18.8)	56 (27.9)
DF > 32	93 (67.9)	52 (81.2)	145 (72.1)
Initial MELD score	137	64	201	0.661
mean ± SD	21.1 (7)	21.6 (6.7)	21.3 (6.9)
< 9	2 (1.5)	0	2 (1)
10-19	61 (44.5)	30 (46.9)	91 (45.3)
20-29	53 (38.7)	25 (39.1)	78 (38.8)
30-39	19 (13.9)	9 (14.1)	28 (13.9)
> 40	2 (1.5)	0	2 (1.0)
Glasgow AH score at day 0				0.991
mean ± SD	7.5 (1.6)	7.4 (1.5)	7.5 (1.6)
< 9	109 (71.7)	53 (69.7)	162 (71.1)
> 9	43 (28.3)	23 (30.3)	66 (28.9)
Type of treatment	37	15	52	0.862
Steroids	16 (11.7)	8 (12.5)	24 (11.9)
Pentoxifylline	13 (9.5)	4 (6.2)	17 (8.5)
Both	8 (5.8)	3 (4.7)	11 (5.5)
Lille score after 7 d				0.829
< 0.45	18 (13.1)	8 (12.5)	26 12.9)
> 0.45	17 (12.4)	6 (9.4)	23 (11.4)

AH: Alcoholic hepatitis; MELD: Model for end stage liver disease; DF: Maddrey discriminant function is defined as DF = 4.6 x [prothrombin time (s) - control prothrombin time (s)] + (serum bilirubin in mg/dL)[11].