Alcohol drinking and risks of liver cancer and non-neoplastic chronic liver diseases in China: a 10-year prospective study of 0.5 million adults

Alcohol drinking and risks of liver cancer and non-neoplastic chronic liver diseases in China: a 10-year prospective study of 0.5 million adults

Abstract Background Alcohol consumption is an important risk factor for hepatic neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases. Questions remain, however, about the relevance to disease risk of drinking patterns and alcohol tolerability, which differ appreciably between Chinese and Western populations. Meth...

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Main Authors: Pek Kei Im, Iona Y. Millwood, Christiana Kartsonaki, Yu Guo, Yiping Chen, Iain Turnbull, Canqing Yu, Huaidong Du, Pei Pei, Jun Lv, Robin G. Walters, Liming Li, Ling Yang, Zhengming Chen, on behalf of the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) collaborative group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-09-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Drinking patterns
Liver cirrhosis
Alcoholic liver disease
Cohort studies
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02079-1

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02079-1

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