Recent trends in the epidemiology of alcoholic liver disease

Clinical Liver Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 53-56

  Singal, Ashwani K ^a   Anand, Bhupinderjit S ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADL DISABILITY; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ARTICLE; BINGE DRINKING; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EASTERN EUROPE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW;

EID: 84899668186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cld.168     Document Type: Article

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