Alcohol-related Chronic Liver Disease Hospital Inpatient Discharges by Year, New Mexico, 2010 to 2020

Why Is This Important?

Excessive alcohol use is the most common cause of CLD. Other causes (e.g. acetaminophen use) are less common. CLD can develop over many years, in some cases 20-30 years, and data on hospitalizations can provide information on CLD risk at an earlier time point in the disease?s development than AR-CLD mortality. However CLD hospitalizations are not limited to alcohol-related conditions, and include all hospital stays where the primary diagnosis was determined to be CLD. Additionally, CLD hospitalizations measure number of hospital stays rather than individuals diagnosed with CLD (i.e. a person can be hospitalized more than once). The rate of CLD hospitalizations in 2016 (83.8 hospitalizations per 100,000) has increased 41.6% since 2010 (59.2 hospitalizations per 100,000). Women are at lower risk than men. Women who identify as Asian or Pacific Islander have the lowest rates whereas men who identify as American Indian have the highest rates.

Definition

Alcohol-related chronic liver disease (AR-CLD) is a progressive chronic disease caused by chronic alcohol abuse.

Data Sources

• New Mexico Population Estimates: University of New Mexico, Geospatial and Population Studies (GPS) Program.
  (http://gps.unm.edu/)
• Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data, New Mexico Department of Health.

How the Measure is Calculated

Data Issues

• New Mexico Population Estimates

  {{class RedText NOTE: On January 16, 2025, the NM-IBIS and NMTracking POPULATION ESTIMATES FOR YEARS **2010 THROUGH 2023** WERE REPLACED. Data from the 2020 decennial census were used to update the estimates. Rates calculated using the NM-IBIS and NMTracking web-based queries are affected. Any rates that use population denominators that were calculated after January 16, 2025 will be different from those calculated prior to that date. We apologize for the inconvenience.}} All population estimates apply to July 1 of the selected year. These estimates are considered the most accurate estimates for the state of New Mexico and should match those found on the University of New Mexico [https://gps.unm.edu/pop/population-estimates.html Geospatial and Population Studies website]. Estimates include decimal fractions. Census tract population estimates were summed to produce County estimates. Population estimate totals may vary slightly due to rounding.

• Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data (HIDD)

  The hospital inpatient discharge data include visits to NON-FEDERAL HOSPITALS only. Visits to Veteran's Administration (VA) facilities and Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities have not been included, unless specifically stated otherwise. Results from this query should not be used to make population inferences for New Mexico's American Indian populations. The data include all hospital visits. Persons with multiple hospital visits will be counted multiple times. By default, these query results include records for in-hospital deaths. Users wishing to query only non-fatal hospitalizations should filter the data to include all discharge statuses OTHER than **EXPIRED**. Transfer visits have not been removed from the dataset. Patients who were transferred from one facility to another will have data records at each facility. For inpatient visits with a diagnosis of "childbirth", data records for mothers have been included, but the data records for newborns have excluded from the HIDD queries. The ICD coding system, maintained by the World Health Organization and the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, is used to classify diagnoses for hospital and emergency department visits. This coding system underwent a major revision from version 9 to version 10 that went into effect October 1, 2015. In most cases, the two versions do not provide comparable results, and the two time periods should not be combined in a single query. The hospital inpatient dataset includes only New Mexico residents hospitalized in New Mexico hospitals and do not include visits for New Mexico residents who visited a hospital in another state. In cases of serious injuries near the state borders, oftentimes patients will be transported to a nearby trauma center in the bordering state.

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