Table 1 Hepatic conditions exclusion criteria, identified on the basis of health care claims

Heart failure

Thrombocytopenia

Positive markers for hepatitis infections

HIV infection

Abnormal aminotransferases

Abnormal total bilirubin

Abnormal transferrin saturation

Jaundice/icterus

Acute or sub-acute necrosis of liver

Veno-occlusive liver disease (not including Budd Chiari syndrome)

Liver infarction

Hepatic coma

Hepatorenal syndrome

Chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and/or fibrosis

Chronic hepatitis

Chronic active hepatitis

Acute hepatitis

Alcoholic hepatitis

Autoimmune hepatitis

Viral hepatitis

Unspecified or cryptogenic hepatitis

Nonalcoholic hepatitis

Biliary tract obstruction, stricture, stones

Primary or metastatic neoplasia of the liver and hepatic ducts

Primary or metastatic tumors elsewhere

Hepatic encephalopathy

Liver transplant

Ascites

Hepatectomy

Other liver operations

Hereditary hemochromatosis

Disorders of copper metabolism (Wilson’s disease)

Alpha-1 antitripsin deficiency

Celiac disease

Sclerosing cholangitis

Primary biliary cirrhosis

Liver helminth, fluke, parasite

Budd-Chiari Syndrome

Abdominal trauma