Increasing Incidence of Cirrhosis Over the Past 2 Decades Among Children in Ontario, Canada

We describe the incidence of cirrhosis in the general pediatric population.This is a population-based study using health-care data from Ontario, Canada, between 1997 and 2017. Age-adjusted and sex-adjusted standardized incidence rates were described, and age-period-cohort modeling approach was used to estimate the independent effect of birth cohort.In total, 2,966 new diagnoses of cirrhosis among children were identified at a median age of 9...