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    Top Issue Essentials: If you have chronic hepatitis, do you really need to "not drink alcohol"?

    • Last Update: 2021-11-13
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    For medical professionals to read and refer to clinical information only, 1s touch alcohol abuse is a major cause of preventable liver disease worldwide
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    Per capita alcohol consumption is closely related to the mortality of liver cirrhosis in various countries [1]
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    A meta-analysis [2] found that drinking 12~24g of alcohol a day increases the risk of death from cirrhosis
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    So, is it okay to drink less? Recently, Am J Gastroenterol, the top journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, published the results of a study that assessed the correlation between light-to-moderate alcohol intake and all-cause mortality in patients with chronic viral hepatitis.
    Let’s take a look at today’s newsletter.
    Bar! References [1] Liu Yan, Su Lin.
    Guidelines for primary diagnosis and treatment of alcoholic liver disease (2019)[J].
    Journal of Clinical Hepatobiliary Diseases,2021,37(01):36-40.
    [2] REHM J, TAYLOR B, MOHAPATRA S, et al.
    Alcohol as a risk factor for liver cirrhosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis[J].
    Drug Alcohol Rev, 2010, 29(4): 437-445.
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