Alcohol and cirrhosis: dose--response or threshold effect?

Mads Kamper-Jørgensen; Morten Grønbaek; Janne Tolstrup; Ulrik Becker

doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2004.03.002

Alcohol and cirrhosis: dose--response or threshold effect?

Mads Kamper-Jørgensen, Morten Grønbaek, Janne Tolstrup, Ulrik Becker

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Abstract

General population studies have shown a strong association between alcohol intake and death from alcoholic cirrhosis, but whether this is a dose-response or a threshold effect remains unknown, and the relation among alcohol misusers has not been studied.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Hepatology
Volume	41
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	25-30
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0168-8278
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2004.03.002
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2004
Externally published	Yes

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