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Cirrhosis is a condition that occurs when chronic diseases cause permanent damage or injury to the liver. The liver is responsible for performing more functions than any other organ in the body, such as metabolizing the food we eat, filtering and detoxifying poisons in our blood to remove numerous toxic compounds, producing immune agents to control infection and regenerating itself when part of it has been damaged.
The scar tissue that forms in cirrhosis harms the structure of the liver, blocking the flow of blood through the organ. It also slows the processing of nutrients, proteins, hormones, drugs, toxins and other substances produced by the liver.
About 25,000 people die from cirrhosis annually, making it the 11th leading cause of death by disease in the United States. Cirrhosis has many causes, but in the U.S., chronic alcoholism and hepatitis C are among the most common. Almost one-half of all cirrhosis deaths are due to excessive alcohol use.
More than 10% of people over 12 years old have alcohol use disorder, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and alcohol addiction is worse in some ethnic groups than others.
According to the NIH, 11.6% of American Indian or Alaska Native people have alcohol addiction, 11% of white people, 10.8% of Hispanic or Latino people, and 9.6% of Black or African American people.
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My grandmother was Cherokee. I avoid the white man's firewater as if it were a coral-mouthed water rattler with AIDS.
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The scar tissue that forms in cirrhosis harms the structure of the liver, blocking the flow of blood through the organ. It also slows the processing of nutrients, proteins, hormones, drugs, toxins and other substances produced by the liver.
About 25,000 people die from cirrhosis annually, making it the 11th leading cause of death by disease in the United States. Cirrhosis has many causes, but in the U.S., chronic alcoholism and hepatitis C are among the most common. Almost one-half of all cirrhosis deaths are due to excessive alcohol use.
More than 10% of people over 12 years old have alcohol use disorder, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and alcohol addiction is worse in some ethnic groups than others.
According to the NIH, 11.6% of American Indian or Alaska Native people have alcohol addiction, 11% of white people, 10.8% of Hispanic or Latino people, and 9.6% of Black or African American people.
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My grandmother was Cherokee. I avoid the white man's firewater as if it were a coral-mouthed water rattler with AIDS.
