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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 148-150, 2003
© 2003 Medical Council on Alcohol

ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER IN A BRITISH CITY: ALCOHOLIC CIRRHOSIS IN SOUTH ASIAN MEN

A. C. Douds, M. A. Cox, T. H. Iqbal and B. T. Cooper*

Gastroenterology Unit, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK

Received 8 May 2002; first review notified 30 September 2002; accepted 9 October 2002

— Aims and Methods: 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. Results and Conclusions: 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.


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