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What is the liver disease caused by drinking heavily for many years?
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Cirrhosis is a slow progressing disease of the liver where healthy liver tissue is gradually replaced with scar tissue. The liver can no longer filter toxins like drugs and alcohol.
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What is the liver disease casused by drinking heavily for many years?
Hepatic cirrhosis
What causes cirrhosis?
The most common and well known causes of cirrhosis are alcoholic liver disease (which is caused by people drinking heavily for a prolonged period, usually at least a decade) and Hepatitis, both B and C. Other causes are diseases that affect the liver, such as Wilson's Disease. Cirrhosis is essentially scarring of the liver, so all of it's causes are things that affect the liver.
Can you give a sentence with the word predispose?
Original answer: Drinking heavily exposes people to liver problems.Does not fit the criteria requested by the Asker.New answer: Drinking heavily can make a person predisposed to liver problems.
What are the causes of fatty liver disease?
Although health professionals do not know for certain what causes a fatty liver, correlated data suggests that malnutrition, medical side effects, and rapid weight lost play a key role in the disease.
What is the liver disease caused by excessive alcohol?
Cirrhosis of the liver.
What is the liver disease caused by drinking heavily over many years?
Alcoholic hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. Up to 35 percent of heavy drinkers develop alcoholic hepatitis. Symptoms may include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and tenderness, fever and jaundice. In its mild form, alcoholic hepatitis can last for years and will cause progressive liver damage. The damage may be reversible if you stop drinking. In its severe form, the disease may occur suddenly, after binge drinking, and it can quickly lead to life-threatening complications.Alcoholic cirrhosis is the most serious type of alcohol-induced liver disease.Cirrhosis refers to the replacement of normal liver tissue with scar tissue. Between 10 and 20 percent of heavy drinkers develop cirrhosis, usually after 10 or more years of drinking. Symptoms of cirrhosis are similar to those of alcoholic hepatitis. The damage from cirrhosis is not reversible, and it is a life-threatening disease. Your condition may stabilize if you stop drinking.Many heavy drinkers will progress from fatty liver to alcoholic hepatitis and finally to alcoholic cirrhosis, though the progression may vary from patient to patient. The risk of developing cirrhosis is particularly high for people who drink heavily and have another chronic liver disease such as viral hepatitis C.source:http://www.liverfoundation.org/education/info/alcohol/
How does alcohol damage the liver?
It causes fatty tissue to build up in the liver, it suppresses enzymes needed to break down toxins in the body, and it causes scar tissue to form inside the liver (cirrhosis).
What diseases can be caused by alcohol?
Heart disease, Cirrhosis, liver disease
What brain damage is caused by drinking alcohol?
it is damege to the liver
Which diseases or disorders affect your liver?
There are over 100 known forms of liver disease caused by a variety of factors. They affect anyone from infants to older adults. Examples are:CirrhosisAny of the hepatitis infectionsLiver cancerLiver flukesHemochromatosisReye syndromeWilson diseasePrimary biliary cirrhosis (PBC),Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)Autoimmune hepatitisTyrosinemiaAlpha 1 antitrypsin deficiencyGlycogen Storage diseaseFatty liver disease
How can cirrhosis of the liver be caused by infectious disease?
Hepititis
What is blackhead disease in turkeys caused from?
When they are a round birds that are diseased. It is caused in the liver.
