Alcohol-related Liver Disease is Rarely Detected at Early Stages Compared With Liver Diseases of Other Etiologies Worldwide

Despite recent advances in treatment of viral hepatitis, liver-related mortality is high, possibly due to the large burden of advanced alcohol-related liver disease (ALD). We investigated whether patients with ALD are initially seen at later stages of disease development than patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection or other etiologies.

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