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Over time, the liver of a person who drinks heavily can become damaged and cause alcoholic liver disease. Early damage to the liver causes fat to deposit onto the liver, resulting in hepatic steatosis, or alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Drinking too much alcohol can lead to cirrhosis. Learn how much alcohol it takes and over how long a period.
Your risk for developing liver disease increases greatly if you are a woman and consume 30 grams or more of hard alcohol daily over a course of five to 10 years or 50 grams or more daily if you are a man. That’s equivalent to about two and one-third shots of hard alcohol a day.
What causes alcohol-associated liver disease? Alcohol-associated liver disease is caused by heavy use of alcohol. The liver’s job is to break down alcohol. If you drink more than it can process, it can become badly damaged. Steatotic (fatty) liver can happen in anyone who consumes a lot of alcohol.
When liver damage has happened due to alcohol, it’s called alcohol-related liver disease. Below, we’ll explore the early signs of alcohol-related liver disease, what alcohol actually does...
About 90% of people who regularly consume excessive amounts of alcohol have fatty liver disease—it can even occur after drinking too much alcohol for as little as two weeks. The liver damage caused by alcohol-related fatty liver disease can usually be reversed if the person stops drinking alcohol.
This article looks at the short-term and long-term effects of alcohol on the liver and what happens if you drink alcohol occasionally, daily, or heavily. It also explains the consequences of heavy drinking and whether it's possible to recover from liver damage after heavy alcohol use.
When the liver filters and processes alcohol—especially regularly over a prolonged period or in episodic excess quantities (i.e. binge drinking), the liver can become damaged and some of this damage can lead to certain liver diseases. 1.
Etiology. Different factors, such as metabolic, genetic, environmental, and immunological, collectively play a role in alcoholic liver disease. The liver tolerates mild alcohol consumption, but as the consumption of alcohol increases, it leads to disorders of the metabolic functioning of the liver.
More Information. Alcohol-related liver disease is liver damage caused by drinking too much alcohol for a long time. In general, the amount of alcohol consumed (how much, how often, and for how long) determines the risk and severity of liver damage.