Los Angeles: Women who drink alcohol have a higher risk of fatty liver disease and death from it than men, a new study has found.
According to media reports, alcoholic liver disease, also known as steatotic liver disease, occurs when fat accumulates in the liver to a harmful level that impairs liver functions such as blood purification. Capacity is damaged.
Researchers at the Summit Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles used U.S. government health data on more than 10,000 adults between the 1980s and 1990s, with all participants having liver scans and other medical tests.
Dr. Susan Cheng, lead author of the study and lead author of the study, said that liver damage has major negative health effects, and research now shows that the disease is even more deadly for women who drink alcohol than for men. May be.
The aforementioned research has been published in the journal Hepatology.
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