Alcoholic drinking habit and hepatic damage

Viel, B; Donoso, Sebastián; Salcedo, Danilo; Varela, Anibal

doi:10.1016/0021-9681(68)90013-1

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“…Since then, a number of other mortality studies have shown that the prevalence of alcohol-related disease in women is higher than would be expected from the ratio of women to men alcoholics in the population. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Morbidity studies have likewise shown a higher prevalence of women with alcohol-related liver damage than would be expected from the numbers of women alcoholics in the population, s-18 In addition, a number of other studies have reported that women tend to have more severe forms of liver disease than do their male counterparts. 19,2° Other studies have suggested that the prognosis for women with alcoholrelated liver disease is worse for them than for men.…”

Section: Evidence Suggesting Women Develop Alcohouc Liver Disease Mormentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Do Women Appear to Develop Alcoholic Liver Disease More Readily Than Men?

Norton

Batey²

1983

Australian Alcohol/Drug Review

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In the last 20 years evidence has accumulated which suggests that women develop alcoholic liver disease more readily than do men. A number of factors have been hypothesized as contributing to their increased susceptibility. Differences in nutritional intake were initially thought to play a large role in the development of alcoholic liver disease. However, more recently, a number of constitutional and other environmental factors have been investigated. It is suggested that there is much to be gained from studies which consider factors in combination rather than in isolation. It is possible that more than one factor contributes to the differing suscceptibility in males and females. In addition, it is likely that some of the proposed factors are not independent of one another. The relative importance of each factor in explaining the difference between sexes, and their degree of independence can only be assessed in multivariate studies.

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