New research paper
New research paper: Infections increase the risk of liver-related complications
FLASH researchers have just published a study on the negative prognostic impact of infections in patients with early stages of alcohol-related liver disease.
It is well known that patients with cirrhosis who already have a weakened immune system are at increased risk of developing infections.
Researchers from FLASH are the first to show in a recently published paper, that even patients with an early and yet unrecognized stage of alcohol-related liver disease frequently develop infections and that this increases their risk of later liver-related complications and death.
More precisely, the patients' risk of liver-related complications became five times higher, while they had an eight times higher risk of death if they had an infection during the nearly five years the patients were followed.
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The research paper has just been published in JHEP Reports and can be found here:
Link to paper