The role of nutritional therapy in alcoholic liver disease

Alcohol Research and Health

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 296-306

  Griffith, Christopher M ^a   Schenker, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholic cirrhosis; Alcoholic fatty liver; Alcoholic hepatitis; Alcoholic liver disease; Anorexia; Ethanol metabolism; Fibrosis; Gut; Heavy alcohol use; Hepatic encephalopathy; Infection; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Nutritional therapy; S adenosylmethionine (SAM)

Indexed keywords

S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; DIET THERAPY; FAT INTAKE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; PHYTOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SILYBUM MARIANUM;

DIETARY FATS; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MALNUTRITION; MILK THISTLE; PHYTOTHERAPY; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

EID: 34347265276     PISSN: 0090838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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