More than 60,000 Americans die each year from liver failure. As of April 2001, there are 17,413 people in the U.S. waiting for a liver transplant. (Source: excerpt from ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION: NWHIC)
The term 'prevalence' of Liver failure usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Liver failure at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Liver failure refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Liver failure diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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