1. Guidelines of prevention and treatment for alcoholic liver disease (2018, China).
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Li, You Ming, Fan, Jian Gao, Cheng, Min Liang, Duan, Zhong Ping, Han, Tao, He, Fang Ping, Lu, Lun Gen, Lu, Xiao Lan, Mi, Yu Qiang, Nan, Yue Min, Niu, Jun Qi, Sun, Chao, Wang, Bing Yuan, Wang, Hua, Wei, Lai, Xu, Cheng Fu, Xu, Ke Shu, Xu, You Qing, Yu, Chao Hui, and Yuan, Ping Ge
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ALCOHOLIC liver diseases ,LIVER disease treatment ,FATTY liver ,PHYSICIANS ,DISEASE risk factors ,MEDICAL societies - Abstract
The article reports that alcoholic liver disease (ALD), induced by long-term heavy alcohol consumption, encompasses a progressive clinical-histological spectrum of liver injuries from simple fatty liver to alcoholic hepatitis, hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis. It notes that hepatitis virus infection exerts a synergistic effect on alcohol-induced liver injury. It adds that ALD could both accelerate the development and progression of liver diseases.
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- 2019
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