Burden of gallstone disease in the United States population: Prepandemic rates and trends

Table 4 Number and age-adjusted rates of ambulatory care visits, emergency department visits, hospital discharges, deaths, and years of potential life lost (to age 75) with gallstone disease (all-listed diagnosis) by age, sex, race, and ethnicity in the United States

Demographic characteristics	Ambulatory care visits (2015)		Emergency department visits (2019)		Hospital discharges (2019)		Mortality (2019)
	Number in thousands	Rate per 100000	Number in thousands	Rate per 100000	Number in thousands	Rate per 100000	Number of deaths	Rate per 100000
Age (yr)
0 to 11	2	4	2	5	2	3	0	0
12 to 24	148	263	95	172	28	51	3	0
25 to 44	565	669	343	392	114	130	61	0.1
45 to 54	467	1084	170	417	75	185	66	0.2
55 to 64	414	1015	190	447	109	256	190	0.5
65 to 74	389	1415	179	570	126	399	307	1.0
75+	218	1080	221	977	171	759	1169	5.2
Sex
Female	1466	870	756	426	356	186	959	0.4
Male	738	418	444	257	269	152	837	0.5
Race
White	1901	691	-	-	508	169	1517	0.5
African American	172	380	-	-	74	166	154	0.4
Other	131	519	-	-	49	190	125	0.5
Hispanic origin
Hispanic	600	1254	-	-	111	223	157	0.4
Not Hispanic	1604	554	-	-	521	159	1639	0.5
Total	2204	642	1200	339	625	168	1796	0.5

Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (3-year average, 2014-2016), Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Emergency Department Sample and National Inpatient Sample, and Vital Statistics of the United States. The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample does not include information on race-ethnicity.