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. 2009 Sep;6(9):2417-25.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph6092417. Epub 2009 Sep 10.

Relationship between dietary beef, fat, and pork and alcoholic cirrhosis

Francis Stephen Bridges  1
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Relationship between dietary beef, fat, and pork and alcoholic cirrhosis

Francis Stephen Bridges. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2009 Sep.

Abstract

Nanji and French investigated the relationship between per-caput consumption of total fat, beef, and pork and for alcohol consumption and rates of mortality for cirrhosis for 16 countries for 1965. The present study reports significant and positive associations for 1996 and 2003 between the following: alcohol consumption and cirrhosis mortality, pork consumption and cirrhosis mortality, the product of alcohol and pork consumption and the product of alcohol and fat consumption. These supportive associations may represent a relationship between the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis and some heretofore unknown dietary or environmental factor related to conditions of pork or fat consumption. Limitations of the study design are discussed.

Keywords: alcohol consumption; alcoholic; dietary fats; liver cirrhosis; meat.

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Relationship between cirrhosis mortality and alcohol consumption for 15 countries (2003).
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Relationship between cirrhosis mortality and pork consumption for 15 countries (2003).
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Relationship between cirrhosis mortality and the product of ethanol and pork consumption for 33 countries (2003).
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