A latest research conducted has shown that one of the most effective treatments to effective defeat alcohol-related liver disease is abstinence.
Dr. Nick Sheron, the leader of the study and the senior lecturer at the University of Southampton and consultant herpetologist at Southampton General Hospital, discovered that abstinence from alcohol is the key factor in long-term prognosis, even with relatively severe alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver.
Sheron said he and the rest of the research team conducted the comprehensive study in order to determine the effect of pathological severity of cirrhosis on survival in patients with alcohol-related cirrhosis.
With the use of p-to-date mortality data from the National Health Service Strategic Tracing Service, Dr Sheron found that drinking status was the most important factor determining long-term survival in alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver.
The medical expert and his team were able to find out that the degree of cirrhosis on biopsy had less impact on survival.
The research team also found out that abstinence from alcohol at one month after diagnosis of cirrhosis was the more important factor determining survival with a seven-year survival of 72 per cent for the abstinent patients against
44 per cent for the patients continuing to drink.
He revealed a third and vital objective at a public health level is to prevent people developing alcohol-related cirrhosis in the first place.
This article should serve as motivational tool for persons suffering from cirrhosis to finally kick the habit of alcoholism.
To live longer, enjoy the beauty of the world and spend bonding moment with family and friends, those people suffering from cirrhosis should kick the habit now and practice abstinence from alcohol products.
