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Alcohol-Linked Disease Overtakes Hep C As Top Reason For Liver Transplant

(By Rachel Bluth for Kaiser Health News)

An estimated 17,000 Americans are on the waiting list for a liver transplant, and there’s a strong chance that many of them have alcohol-associated liver disease. ALD now edges out hepatitis C as the No. 1 reason for liver transplants in the United States, according to research published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

One reason for the shift, researchers said, is that hepatitis C, which used to be the leading cause of liver transplants, has become easier to treat with drugs.  Continue reading article here…

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