Male/female ratio of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

VernacularTitle:肝細胞癌症例の男女比に関する研究
Author: Tetsuo MORIMOTO ; Fujio MURAKAMI ; Yasuhiko MIYOSHI ; Ikuo MITANI ; Hiroaki KAWANO ; Yukinori OKAZAKI
Publication Type:Journal Article
From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 1991;39(5):1060-1062
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: The ratio of men to women was studied in 331 patients hospitalized into our department for the past three years for various liver diseases. Two factors seemed to affect the sex difference in the morbidity of liver disease. One was a history of drinking, the other a positive ratio of HBs antigen. So, heavy drinkers and HBs antigen positive cases were excluded from the patients with chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and the male/female ratio was studied again. The ratio of men to women in the patients with liver cirrhosis was 1.3: 1, 4. 1: 1 in the patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and 2.0: 1 in the patients with chronic hepatitis. The male ratio was strikingly high in the case of hepatocellular carcinoma. It is thought that liver cirrhosis is a cause of hepatocellular carcinoma. And then differences in the results of liver function tests between men and women were studied in the patients with liver cirrhosis. However, no remarkable difference was found between men and women.