Statistics 

The following are the latest statistics available from the National Center for Health Statistics, the American Liver Foundation, and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS):

• Over 26,000 people in the US die each year from chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.

• Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases are the eighth leading disease-related cause of death in the US.

• Seventy-five to 80 percent of cases of cirrhosis could be prevented by eliminating alcohol abuse.

• Approximately 2.7 million people in the US are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus.

• Between 8,000 and 10,000 people die of hepatitis C annually in the US.
  
  
• Hepatitis B kills 5,000 people in the US annually.

• About 78,000 new infections of hepatitis B occur each year.