Chronic Liver Disease and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander

Chronic Liver Disease

Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders were seven times more likely to be diagnosed with chronic liver disease in 2006 as compared to non-Hispanic whites.
American Samoans were 8 times more likely to develop liver cancer as compared to non-Hispanic whites, from 1998-2002.
Recently published survey data on this topic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is limited.

Cancer Rates for Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders

*Liver & IBD Cancer Incidence Rates per 100,000 – Men (1998-2002)**
Native Hawaiian	Samoan	Non-Hispanic White	Native Hawaiian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio	Samoan / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
16.3	54.5	6.7	2.4	8.1

Liver & IBD Cancer Incidence Rates per 100,000 – Women (1998-2002)
Native Hawaiian	Non-Hispanic White	Native Hawaiian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
7.7	2.6	3.0

*IBD = Intrahepatic Bile Duct

Source: NCI 2008. Cancer Incidence and Mortality Patterns among Specific Asian and Pacific Islander Populations in the U.S.
http://seer.cancer.gov/publications/apicancer/index.html

Age-adjusted percentage of persons 18 years of age and over who have been told by a doctor that they have chronic liver disease, 2006**
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	Non-Hispanic White	Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
9.7	1.4	7.0

**No data currently is available for the Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander group from 2007-2019.

Source: CDC 2007. Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: 2006. Table 8.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_235.pdf [PDF 3.64MB]

Cancer Death Rates per 100,000 – Men (1998-2002)
Cancer	Native Hawaiian	Samoan	Non-Hispanic White	Native Hawaiian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio	Samoan / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
Liver & IBD	11.8	32.9	6.1	1.9	5.4

Cancer Death Rates per 100,000 – Women (1998-2002)
Cancer	Native Hawaiian	Samoan	Non-Hispanic White	Native Hawaiian / Non-Hispanic White Ratio	Samoan / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
Liver & IBD	6.4	--	2.7	2.4	--

Source: NCI 2008. Cancer Incidence and Mortality Patterns among Specific Asian and Pacific Islander Populations in the U.S.
http://seer.cancer.gov/publications/apicancer/index.html

NOTE: For all of the above tables, this is the most recent national data available at this time.

Age-adjusted Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis Death Rates per 100,000 (2018)
	Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	Non-Hispanic White	Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander / Non-Hispanic White Ratio
Men	9.9	14.9	0.7
Women	--	8.3	--
Total	7.9	11.5	0.7

Source: CDC 2021. National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 69, No. 13. Table 10.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr69/nvsr69-13-508.pdf [PDF 2.05MB]

Last Modified: 8/11/2021 10:56:00 AM

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