Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis

Prevalence: 400,000 people (1976-80)

Mortality: 26,050 deaths (1987)

Hospitalizations: 300,000 (1987)

Physician office visits: 1 million (1985)

Disability: 112,000 people (1983-87)

Constipation

Prevalence: 4.4 million people (1983-87)

Mortality: 29 deaths (1982-85)

Hospitalizations: 100,000 (1983-87)

Physician office visits: 2 million (1985)

Prescriptions: 1 million (1985)

Disability: 13,000 people (1983-87)

Diverticular Disease

Incidence: 300,000 new cases (1987)

Prevalence: 2 million people (1983-87)

Mortality: 3,000 deaths (1985)

Hospitalizations: 440,000 (1987)

Physician office visits: 2 million (1987)

Disability: 112,000 people (1983-87)

Gallstones

Prevalence: 16 to 22 million people (1976-87)

Mortality: 2,975 (1985)

Hospitalizations: 800,000 (1987)

Physician office visits: 600,000 to 700,000 (1985)

Prescriptions: 195,000 (1985)

Surgical procedures: 500,000 cholecystectomies (1987)

Disability: 48,000 people (1983-87)

Gastritis and Nonulcer Dyspepsia (NUD)

Incidence:

Gastritis: 313,000 new cases (1975)

Chronic NUD: 444,000 new cases (1975)

Acute NUD: 8.2 million new cases (1988)

Prevalence:

Gastritis: 2.7 million people (1988)

NUD: 5.8 million people (1988)

Mortality:

Gastritis: 703 (1980's)

NUD: 49 (1980's)

Hospitalizations:

Gastritis: 600 (1980's)

NUD: 65,000 (1980's)

Physician office visits:

Gastritis: 3 million (1980's)

NUD: 800,000 (1980's)

Prescriptions:

Gastritis: 2 million (1985)

NUD: 649,000 (1985)

Disability:

Gastritis: 34,000 people (1983-87)

Chronic NUD: 42,000 people (1983-87)

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Related Esophageal Disorders

Prevalence: 3 to 7 percent of U.S. population (1985)

Mortality: 1,000 deaths (1984-88)

Hospitalizations: 1 million (1985)

Physician office visits: 4 to 5 million (1985)

Hemorrhoids (1983-87)

Incidence: 1 million new cases

Prevalence: 10.4 million people

Mortality: 17 deaths

Hospitalizations: 316,000

Physician office visits: 3.5 million

Prescriptions: 1.5 million

Disability: 52,000 people

Infectious Diarrhea

Incidence: 99 million new cases (1980)

Mortality: 3,100 deaths (1985)

Hospitalizations: 462,000 to 728,000 (1987)

Physician office visits: 8 to 12 million (1985)

Prescriptions: 5 to 8 million (1985)

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (1987)

Incidence: 2 to 6 new cases per 100,000 people

Prevalence: 300,000 to 500,000 people

Mortality: Fewer than 1,000 deaths

Hospitalizations: 100,000 (64 percent for Crohn's disease)

Physician office visits: 700,000

Disability: 119,000 people (1983-87)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Prevalence: 5 million people (1987)

Hospitalizations: 34,000 (1987)

Physician office visits: 3.5 million (1987)

Prescriptions: 2.2 million (1985)

Disability: 400,000 people (1983-87)

Lactose Intolerance ^[2]

Prevalence: 30 to 50 million people (1994)

Pancreatitis

Incidence: Acute: 17 new cases per 100,000 people (1976-88)

Mortality: 2,700 deaths (1985)

Hospitalizations:

Acute: 125,000 (1987)

Chronic: 20,000 (1987)

Physician office visits:

Acute: 911,000 (1987)

Chronic: 122,000 (1987)

Peptic Ulcer

Prevalence: 5 million people (1987)

Mortality: 6,500 deaths (1987)

Hospitalizations: 630,000 (1987)

Physician office visits: 3 to 5 million (1985)

Prescriptions: 2 million (1985)

Disability: 401,000 people (1983-87)

Viral Hepatitis

Incidence:

Hepatitis A: 32,000 new cases (1992)

Hepatitis B: 200,000 to 300,000 new cases (1990)

Hepatitis C: 150,000 new cases (1991)

Hepatitis D: 70,000 new cases (1990)

Prevalence:

Hepatitis A: 32 to 38 percent of U.S. population that have any history of disease (1991)

Hepatitis B: 4 percent of U.S. population that have any history of disease (1990)

Hepatitis C and D: Not determined

Mortality: Fewer than 1,000 deaths (1985)

Hospitalizations: 33,000 (1987)

Physician office visits: 500,000 (1985)

Additional Data

Number of gastroenterologists in the United States ^[4]: 7,493 (1990)

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