Number of hospital contacts with alcohol problems predicts later risk of alcoholic liver cirrhosis.

CONCLUSIONS: The number of prior hospital contacts with alcohol problems might provide clinicians with a helpful metric in deciding whether to offer preventive interventions for alcoholic liver cirrhosis. PMID: 29528775 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29528775?dopt=Abstract

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - March 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Askgaard G, Tolstrup JS, Kjær MS, Leon DA Tags: Scand J Public Health Source Type: research