Heavy drinking over 10 years or more can greatly increase your risk of cirrhosis. But the more you drink, the more quickly cirrhosis may develop. Your genetics may also play a role. Alcohol affects ...

Heather Hahn’s skin and eyes started to turn yellow around the time she turned 32. She knew exactly what it was. For the 13 years prior, she was an alcoholic. “I look like the Simpsons now,” she told ...

People under 45 have been driving an increase in liver-related deaths, especially those caused by alcohol. But a sliver of that young adult population is being hit disproportionately hard by ...

Liver damage from alcohol-associated liver disease may be possibly reversible in its early stages. In all stages, alcohol cessation is considered critical to overall outlook. Alcohol-associated liver ...

Research has revealed a steep increase in liver disease in recent years. Meanwhile, there is growing evidence of health harms from alcohol, including drinking at levels that were previously considered ...

An increase in alcohol consumption, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is fueling a surge in liver disease that could lead to a greater need for organ transplants, according to several Long ...

Alcohol-related liver disease can often have little to no symptoms in the early stages, so it can be difficult to detect that anything is wrong. But it's not uncommon. There's been a 46% increase in ...

Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is the most common cause of advanced hepatic disease worldwide. Increasing alcohol use over the past decade has led to significant healthcare burden as rates of ...

Approximately 170,000 people die from alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver in Europe every year. Although alcohol is the most important risk factor, less is known about the significance of different ...

Liver enzymes that break down alcohol become less efficient with age, causing people to feel the effects of alcohol faster ...