Standards of liver cirrhosis care in Central Australia

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for all data and all variables in the study

Total number of patients	193
Age at diagnosis, years–mean ± SD	50.7 (11.9)
Gender
Female	82 (42.5%)
Male	111 (57.5%)
Aboriginal	154 (79.8%)
Residence
Alice Springs	58 (30.1%)
Alice Springs township	31 (16.1%)
Rural	104 (53.9%)
Risk factors
IVDU	15 (7.9%)
Hazardous alcohol intake	137 (71.4%)
Obesity	63 (35.6%)
Child-Pugh score
A	94 (50%)
B	71 (37.8%)
C	23 (12.2%)
MELD score–median (IQR)	10 (8, 18)
Decompensating event triggering admission	58 (30.4%)
Aetiology
Alcohol	96 (49.7%)
Hepatitis B	22 (11.4%)
NAFLD	11 (5.7%)
Hepatitis C	9 (4.7%)
Cardiac cirrhosis	6 (3.1%)
Cryptogenic	6 (3.1%)
Autoimmune hepatitis	2 (1%)
Biliary diseases	2 (1%)
NAFLD + Alcohol	5 (2.6%)
Hepatitis C + Alcohol	11 (5.7%)
Hepatitis B + Alcohol	18 (9.3%)
Cardiac cirrhosis + NAFLD	3 (1.6%)
Hepatitis B + NAFLD	2 (1.0%)
Participation in variceal surveillance	75 (41.9%)
Participation in HCC surveillance	32 (20.3%)
Development of HCC during study period	29 (15.0%)
Review in specialist clinic	95 (49.5%)
Referral for liver transplantation	12 (6.4%)

NAFLD: Non-Alcoholic fatty liver disease; HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma; MELD: Model for End-stage Liver Disease; IVDU: Intravenous drug use.