Chronic drinking causes more liver injury than acute or binge drinking

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 16:56 in Health & Medicine

Alcohol consumption is known to cause liver damage. Yet the specifics of alcohol-induced liver injury can differ depending on the pattern of drinking. New rodent findings show that chronic drinking causes more injury - as measured by gene-expression changes - to the liver than acute or binge drinking.

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