Young adults are drinking themselves to death by causing irreversible damage to their livers, a new study has found.

The team, from the University of Michigan Medicine, were surprise to find that the biggest increase was among 25-to-34-year-olds, rising 10 percent every year - an overall 240 percent increase.
These finding comes after the Nigeria government implemented tax policy on Alcohol and tobacco.

'I was really struck by the number of patients I was seeing in the clinic who were there for liver-related diseases due to alcohol,' co-author Dr Elliot Tapper, an assistant professor of gastroenterology and internal medicine at Michigan Medicine.
'And they were really young too, in their 20s and 30s, which not something you normally see.'

Explaining Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease, caused by infection and alcohol. This process involve the loss of liver cells or permanent scarring of the organ.

Symptoms of Cirrhosis
poor appetite
fatigue
feeling weak
fever
vomiting
bruising
bleeding, and
jaundice or yellowing of the skin
How The Research was Done

They found that between 1999 and 2016, the number of annual deaths from cirrhosis increased by 65 percent, to 34,174.
Meanwhile, the number of annual deaths from hepatocellular carcinoma, a common type of liver cancer often caused by cirrhosis, doubled during that period to 11,073.

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'The rate of deaths are so much higher for young people than we thought,' said Dr Tapper.
'We thought we would begin to see a decrease in 2014 because of the Direct Acting Antivirals treatment for hep C that had come out.'

DAAs are a relatively new class of medication which has been hailed as a cure for chronic hepatitis C.
They target the virus in various ways to stop it from multiplying, which has led to shorter treatment times and higher cure rates.

'But it turned out the trend preceded unchecked probably because of the rise of alcohol-related liver disease,' Dr Tapper continued.

The researchers also wanted to see which groups had been impacted the most by liver deaths.
'When you die in your 60s, when your life-expectancy should have been age 75, that's horrible,' said Dr Tapper.





https://medfort.com.ng/young-adults-are-drinking-themselves-to-death/

So what should we take now ? What will kill you will kill you. Pesin wey go die by bullet, alcohol no fit kill am. Drink up

That's really terrible that we don't understand the effect of alcohol on us!

something must kill a man. Great blog

korand:
That's really terrible that we don't understand the effect of alcohol on us!

So true