Recent trends in liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease in the United States

Table 3 Changes in number of transplants per year for alcoholic liver disease by age group, gender and etiology

	Mean per year 2002-2012	Mean per year 2013-2015	Difference	Change	P value
Total	626.4	836.7	210.3	1.34	0.002
Age group (yr)
18-30	4.3	14.3	10.1	3.35	0.003
31-40	40.7	84.0	43.3	2.06	0.001
41-50	170.5	219.7	49.1	1.29	0.005
51-60	264.5	314.3	49.8	1.19	0.040
61-70	138.4	195.0	56.6	1.41	0.010
71-83	7.9	9.3	1.4	1.18	0.500
Gender
Female	141.6	217.3	75.7	1.53	0.001
Male	484.7	619.3	134.6	1.28	0.005
Etiology
Alcoholic cirrhosis	619.5	827.0	207.5	1.33	0.002
Alcoholic hepatitis	6.8	9.7	2.8	1.42	0.580
HCV/ALD	274.4	183.7	-90.7	0.67	0.050

HCV: Hepatitis C virus; ALD: Alcoholic liver disease.