Independent and combined action of hepatitis C virus infection and alcohol consumption on the risk of symptomatic liver cirrhosis

Hepatology : Official Journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
G Corrao, S Aricò

Abstract

Although alcohol intake and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are the major determinants of liver cirrhosis (LC) in Western countries, the joint effect of these two factors on LC risk has not yet been adequately studied. We used data from two hospital-based case-control studies performed in Italy. Cases were 285 cirrhotic patients admitted for the first time to district hospitals for liver decompensation. Controls were 417 patients admitted during the same period, and in the same hospitals as the cases, for acute diseases unrelated to alcohol. Alcohol consumption was expressed as lifetime daily alcohol intake (LDAI). Serum HCV antibodies (anti-HCV) were detected using a second-generation test and recombinant immunoblotting assay. We found a dose-effect relationship between LDAI and the risk of LC in both anti-HCV-negative and -positive subjects. Considering the extreme LDAI categories (LDAI = 0 g, lifetime teetotalers, and LDAI = 175 g), the LC odds ratios increased from 1.0 (reference category) to 15.0 (95% CI, 7.1-31.7) and from 9.2 (95% CI, 2.0-43.2) to 147.2 (95% CI, 42.1-514.3) in anti-HCV-negative and -positive patients respectively. The interaction between LDAI and HCV showed an additive structure for LDAI < 50 g/day and...Continue Reading

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