Cirrhosis

Alcohol Misuse Heightens Risk In Patients With Hepatitis C

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 12th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer -- Patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) who abuse alcohol suffer more advanced liver disease, U.S. National Institutes of Health researchers say.

The study is one of the first to quantify the relationship between progressive liver disease in HCV patients who consume too much alcohol, the researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Study data were obtained from a retrospective review of various records associated with patients who received treatment at clinics and hospitals between 1968 and 1980. D.R. Harris and colleagues identified the records of patients deemed to have acquired...

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