Baseline characteristics of patients at the time of diagnosis of liver cirrhosis.

Our cohort was predominantly male with a median age of 55 years at the time of diagnosis. The most common etiologies of cirrhosis were alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and viral hepatitis and the baseline characteristics of these subcohorts are compared on the two rightmost columns. Patients with ALD usually presented at later stages of liver disease with higher CPS and MELD. Most deaths occurred in this group (68 patients, 32.2%).