摘要
The letter is to respond to the recent publication“Trends in hospitalization for alcoholic hepatitis from 2011 to 2017:A USA nationwide study”(World J Gastroenterol 2022;28:5036-5046).We noticed a significant difference in the total numbers of reported hospitalized alcohol-associated hepatitis(AH)patients between this publication and our publication on Alcohol Clin Exp Res(2022;46:1472-1481).We believe the number of“AH-related hospitalizations”inflated by the inclusion of patients with non-AH forms of alcohol-associated liver disease.
