Hospital admissions for alcoholic and not alcoholic liver cirrhosis in Sicily (2007/2016)

Introduction: The leading causes of cirrhosis in Italy are alcohol intake, B and C Hepatitis viruses and metabolic syndrome. According to the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) the mortality rate for liver cirrhosis has decreased from 34.5 (1980) to 10.8/100,000 (2012). This favourable trend is due to the improvement of treatments and to a decreasing role of HBV and HCV infections. Only selected hospital based-series have showed this reduction for HBV and HCV related cirrhosis. These studies may be biased by patient selection.