[Social medicine and chronic liver disease (author's transl)]

Reports of 1,033 insured person in file of the Landesversicherungsanstalt Rheinprovinz, a public insurance agency, were evaluated; these individuals had started receiving annuities because of liver disease in the years 1969 and 1970. On evaluation 7-8 years later the following was found: annuities still running 21,3%, stop of annuities 1,3%, time limited annuities 3,5%, change to retirement annuities 34,8%, death 39,1%.