January 25, 2012
Do all alcoholics develop alcoholic liver disease or liver damage beyond repair?
Category: Liver Disease
How many do and how many don’t if you are a woman are you definately going to develop alcoholic liver disease if you drink more than 1 or 2 drinks a day? are you more at risk if you drink a lot every day or can weekend binges cause it even if you do not drink during other days?
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January 25th, 2012 at 1:19 am
They’re all at *risk* from it, certainly, but it’s not guaranteed. However, there are many other harmful effects on health that can be caused or aggravated by alcoholism so if you’re worried either yourself or a loved one might be going down that road it really is a good idea to seek some professional medical advice.
January 25th, 2012 at 1:30 am
No. Any person that drinks alcohol will have some physiological effects from it. Most are mild and temporary. Of all alcoholics 10-15% develop cirrhosis, and from that 10-15%, more than half have a good 5 year survivability prognosis if abstinence is taken.
So the chances of cirrhosis are not strong for people born with normal functioning livers.
Women develop alcoholic liver disease twice as quickly as men due to metabolic differences between the sexes.
January 25th, 2012 at 2:22 am
anna.
do you have to keep asking the same questions over and over again.
nic