What follows, in turn, is a look at the principal owners of BB&T's (NYSE:BBT) outstanding common stock. A broad overview. As you can see in the following chart, the majority of BB&T's 700 million shares are held by institutional investors.
Approximately 25,000 Americans die each year from chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. More than 300,000 people are hospitalized each year due to cirrhosis. Approximately 5,000 liver transplants were performed in 2000. Because of the shortage of organs, it is estimated that nearly 1,700 prospective recipients died in 2001 while waiting for a liver for transplantation.
Cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease often associated with alcoholism. After heart disease and cancer, cirrhosis is the third most common cause of death in people aged 45-65 years. Cirrhosis is a general term for end-stage liver disease, which can have many causes and which disrupts normal liver tissue.