Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Hepatic Steatosis in Northern Italy
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Hepatic steatosis, an accumulation of fat in the liver, seems to be more involved with obesity than with heavy drinking. It is often found in healthy persons and almost always in obese persons who drink more than 60 g of alcohol a day. A total of 257 people were divided into four groups: 66 obese people, 69 heavy drinkers, 55 heavy and obese drinkers, and 67 controls, people who were neither obese nor heavy drinkers. Steatosis was present in 46.4% of the heavy drinkers, 75.8% of the obese, 94.5% of heavy obese drinkers, and 16.4% of the controls.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 2000
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Relationship among transfusion-related hepatitis C, alcohol abuse, and cirrhosis
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People with hepatitis C who abuse alcohol are more than 30 times more likely to develop liver cirrhosis than people with neither risk factor. This was the conclusion of a study of 836 people who had received a blood transfusion between 1968 and 1980.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 2001
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The relationship between type of alcoholic drinks consumed and death from various causes
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Wine may be the type of alcohol that has the most beneficial effect on health, according to a study of 13,064 men and 11,459 women in Denmark. Wine drinkers had lower death rates then people who drank other types of alcohol.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 2000
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