Liver disease facts include:

• 25 million Americans have liver disease
• 3.5 million have chronic Hepatitis C virus.
• Over 26,000 die each year from liver disease and cirrhosis of the liver
• Cirrhosis is the 7th leading disease related cause of death in the U.S
• 8,000 to 10,000 people die of Hepatitis C each year.
• This number is expected to rise to 38,000 by 2010.
• 5,000 people die each year of Hepatitis B.
• 200,000 are newly infected with Hepatitis B each year.
• 17,500 adults and children are waiting for a liver transplant in the U.S.

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NULives is a program of the Hepatology Division of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University