Talk:Alcoholic liver disease

Revision Needed
This section on pathophysiology is really amateur. It's colloquial and full of errors. Someone with medical background should address this.

Quixotism22 (talk) 04:46, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeh I'll have a look at this... --Herophilus (talk) 00:01, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Whoever wrote: The diet is usually supplemented with vitamins and dietary minerals (including calcium and iron).[citation needed] under "nutrition" might want to google: "Liver iron is predictive of death in alcoholic cirrhosis"...  Alcohol increases iron absorption in the gut and iron overload is a common problem with alcoholic liver disease. This should be fixed pronto! Bolam56 (talk) 18:28, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The entire Nutrition section is just a lot of unreferenced dubious assertions with a strong whiff of alternative medicine about it. --Ef80 (talk) 13:23, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Aside from "alkalyzing" the body, what sounds like alt med? I'll delete that part, but the rest can probably be referenced.  I have a nutrition textbook I'll try to dig out this weekend.  N o f o rmation  Talk  19:58, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Number One Link on Google
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000281.htm ranks #1 on Google for "Alcoholic liver disease"NumberOneGoogle 18:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC) in fatty liver their is excess fat in the liver —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.164.34.146 (talk) 07:59, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Were you thinking of citing this? Would be good under external links. I agree with the previous comment about this article needing work. Could check out some of the various reviews on Pub Med written by Drs. Lieber, Rubin, Tsukamoto, Cedarbaum, Israel, Albano, Li and others. If anyone has any questions or needs any help on this topic, holler on my Talk page. Rhode Island Red (talk) 01:20, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Guideline
- AASLD guideline. JFW | T@lk  14:06, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

The lack of Pain senses in the Liver.
Perhaps a mention of the small number of pain senses in the Liver would add to the Article. Pain is one of the first signs the body gives something is wrong with an organ. However, the Liver has few pain senses and can be nearly destroyed by cirrhosis without any pain being felt. When you finally realise something is wrong, it is usually in the later stages of Liver illness. Johnwrd (talk) 19:23, 3 April 2011 (UTC)damage.

Yes, but this is true of many internal organs including the kidneys, ovaries, and spleen. (Dr Mike) EtherDoc (talk) 04:57, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Sex section is highly dubious
I'm not a doctor, I came to this page out of general curiosity. The sex section is very poorly written and seems spectacularly dubious. I'm pretty sure you can't 'pass' cancer to another person. I'm going to remove it, please tell me here if I'm sorely mistaken. 162.18.172.11 (talk) 17:06, 3 August 2011 (UTC)Tim

Please improve alcohol consumption amount
Could someone with the math skills (not me) please convert the part in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_liver_disease#Risk_factors "Consumption of 60–80g per day (about 75–100 ml/day) for 20 years or more in men, or 20g/day (about 25 ml/day) for women" to a figure actually usable by the general public? Adding a line about approximately four servings of beer, three servings of wine, two shots of whiskey (or whatever the typical amount would work out to be) would be helpful indeed. I know of nobody who goes out to purchase alcohol by the gram. How many real world beverages does it take? Cramyourspam (talk) 17:10, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Ongoing alcohol use
Review of management 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.10.004 JFW &#124; T@lk  21:14, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

EASL guideline
10.1016/j.jhep.2018.03.018 JFW &#124; T@lk  09:33, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Transplantation
This section is discussing cirrhosis rather than fatty liver disease. ☣Yutsi — Talk/Edits 23:48, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

"Alcohol-related mortality" not relevant
The article discusses "alcohol-related mortality", but that's just off-topic filler material. How many people die of alcohol-related liver disease specifically? If nobody knows, then fine - say nobody knows, and if possible explain why. This article isn't about number of deaths due to alcohol, it's about liver disease due to alcohol. TooManyFingers (talk) 06:12, 21 January 2024 (UTC)