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FACT #30
Did you know the relationship between alcohol intake and cirrhosis is exponential?
Alcohol-related harm correlates with the volume and pattern of drinking, with epidemiological studies showing an exponential dose-response relationship between alcohol and liver disease. For most countries in the WHO European region, there is a strong correlation between liver-related mortality rates and population-level alcohol consumption.
Show me the science
Rehm J, Taylor B, Mohapatra S, et al. Alcohol as a risk factor for liver cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Drug Alcohol Rev 2010; 29: 437–45.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1465-3362.2009.00153.x
Ndugga N, Lightbourne TG, Javaherian K, et al. Disparities between research attention and burden in liver diseases: implications on uneven advances in pharmacological therapies in Europe and the USA. BMJ Open 2017.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/3/e013620
Karlsen TH, Sheron N, Zelber-Sagi S, et al. The EASL–Lancet Liver Commission: protecting the next generation of Europeans against liver disease complications and premature mortality. The Lancet 2021.
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)01701-3/fulltext
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