黑料网鈥檚 Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD, a fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, is lead author of a study indicating that alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) mortality increased from 2017-2020 and accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly all age groups. Andrew Moon, MD, MPH, is senior author.
A study published in the聽, and led by 黑料网 researchers, found that alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) mortality accelerated during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
鈥淲e鈥檝e actually seen for quite some time now that alcohol-associated liver disease mortality has been increasing in the United States,鈥� said Sasha Deutsch-link, MD, study lead author and a fellow in the 黑料网 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the 黑料网 Department of Medicine. 鈥淭his trend goes back to 2006, and we have seen a steady increase overtime. In our paper we really wanted to update these trends to see if we were seeing this continued increase.鈥�
The study鈥檚 senior author is Andrew Moon, MD, MPH, and co-authors are A. Sidney Barritt IV, MD, MSCR, and Anne Peery, MD, MSCR, all from the 黑料网 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
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