Douds A C, Cox M A, Iqbal T H, Cooper B T
Gastroenterology Unit, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK.
Alcohol Alcohol. 2003 Mar-Apr;38(2):148-50. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agg040.
We studied the ethnic origin of cirrhotic patients retrospectively over the 14-year period 1987-2000 and compared the ethnic make-up of the cirrhotic patients with the ethnic make-up of the local catchment population.
Of 381 cirrhotics, 64.1% were white, 29.1% South Asian, 4.7% Afro-Caribbeans and 2.1% other races. These proportions were different from those of the local community in that South Asians were over-represented and Afro-Caribbeans were under-represented. Alcohol was the commonest cause of cirrhosis (60.9%) and South Asian non-Moslem males with alcoholic cirrhosis were over-represented and were younger at diagnosis than white alcoholic cirrhotics.
我们对1987年至2000年这14年间肝硬化患者的种族来源进行了回顾性研究，并将肝硬化患者的种族构成与当地集水区人口的种族构成进行了比较。
在381例肝硬化患者中，64.1%为白人，29.1%为南亚人，4.7%为非洲加勒比人，2.1%为其他种族。这些比例与当地社区的比例不同，因为南亚人占比过高，而非洲加勒比人占比过低。酒精是肝硬化最常见的病因（60.9%），患有酒精性肝硬化的南亚非穆斯林男性占比过高，且诊断时比白人酒精性肝硬化患者年龄更小。
