酒精性肝病的流行病学和自然史

酒精对肝脏有明显的毒性作用，重度饮酒者中80％以上有一定程度的脂肪肝，10％～35％可发展成酒精性肝炎，10％～20％将发展为肝硬化。

Epidemiology and Natural History of Alcoholic Liver Diseases

Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence have become the world's growing public health problem. Chronic liver disease and alcohol-related cirrhosis are the major cause of death. In recent years,alcohol-induced liver disease in China has been keeping a growing trend. Topics about alcoholic liver diseases ranging from epidemiology,diagnosis,drug therapy,alcohol withdrawal,and liver transplantation,will be discussed in the special column hosted by Professor Lu Lungen from the First Aff iliated Hospital of Shanghai...