Specific Diseases Statistics for the United States
- Abdominal Wall Hernia
- Ambulatory care visits: 4.7 million (2004)
- Surgical procedures (inguinal hernia only): 600,000 (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 372,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 1,663 deaths (2007)
- Prescriptions: 3.7 million (2004)
- Chronic Constipation
- Prevalence: 63 million people (2000)
- Ambulatory care visits: 6.3 million (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 700,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 137 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 5.3 million (2004)
- Diverticular Disease
- Prevalence: 2.2 million people (1998)
- Ambulatory care visits: 3.2 million (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 815,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 3,372 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 2.8 million (2004)
- Gallstones
- Prevalence: 20 million people (2004)
- Ambulatory care visits: 1.8 million (2004)
- Surgical procedures: 700,000 cholecystectomies (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 622,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 1,092 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 1.65 million (2004)
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
- Prevalence: Reflux symptoms at least
weekly: 20 percent of the population
(2004)
- Ambulatory care visits: 18.3 million (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 3.1 million (2004)
- Mortality: 1,150 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 64.6 million (2004)
- Gastrointestinal Infections
- Prevalence: Nonfoodborne gastroenteritis: 135 million people (1998)
Foodborne illness: 76 million people (1998) - Ambulatory care visits: 2.3 million (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 450,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 4,396 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 938,000 (2004)
- Hemorrhoids
- Prevalence: 75 percent of people older than 45 (2006)
- Ambulatory care visits: 3.2 million (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 306,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 14 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 2 million (2004)
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Crohn’s Disease
- Prevalence: 359,000 people (1998)
- Ambulatory care visits: 1.1 million (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 141,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 622 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 1.8 million (2004)
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Prevalence: 619,000 people (1998)
- Ambulatory care visits: 716,000 (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 82,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 311 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 2.1 million (2004)
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Prevalence: 15.3 million (1998)
- Ambulatory care visits: 3 million (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 212,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 20 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 5.9 million (2004)
- Liver Disease
- Prevalence: 2.6 million people (2007)
- Ambulatory care visits: 2.3 million (2004)
- Liver transplants: 6,319 (2008)
- Hospitalizations: 759,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 36,090 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 731,000 (2004)
- Pancreatitis
- Prevalence: 1.1 million people (1998)
- Incidence: Acute: 17 cases per 100,000 people (2003)
- Chronic: 8.2 cases per 100,000 people (1981)
- Ambulatory care visits: 881,000 (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 454,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 3,480 deaths (2004)
- Prescriptions: 766,000 (2004)
- Peptic Ulcer Disease
- Prevalence: 14.5 million people (2007)
- Ambulatory care visits: 1.4 million (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 489,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 3,000 deaths (2007)
- Prescriptions: 5 million (2004)
- Viral Hepatitis
- Hepatitis A
- Prevalence of chronic infection: none (2007)
- Incidence of acute clinical cases: 2,979 new cases (2007)
- Ambulatory care visits: infrequent (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 10,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 58 deaths (2004)
- Hepatitis B
- Prevalence of chronic infection: 800,000–1.4 million people (2007)
- Incidence of acute clinical cases: 4,519 new cases (2007)
- Ambulatory care visits: 729,000 (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 69,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 645 deaths (2004)
- Hepatitis C
- Prevalence of chronic infection: 2.7–3.9 million people (2007)
- Incidence of acute clinical cases: 849 new cases (2007)
- Ambulatory care visits: 2.7 million (2004)
- Hospitalizations: 419,000 (2004)
- Mortality: 4,595 deaths (2004)
All Digestive Diseases Statistics
Prevalence: 60 to 70 million people affected by all digestive diseases
Ambulatory care visits: 104.7 million (2004)
Hospitalizations: 13.5 million (2004)
Mortality: 236,164 deaths (2004)
Diagnostic and therapeutic inpatient procedures: 5.5 million—12 percent of all inpatient procedures (2006)
Ambulatory surgical procedures: 20 million—31 percent of all ambulatory procedures (2006)
Costs: $141.8 billion (2004)
$97.8 billion direct medical costs (2004)
$44 billion indirect costs (e.g., disability and mortality) (2004)
