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Digestive & GastrointestinalSevere
Liver Cirrhosis
Hepatology · Digestive & Gastrointestinal
Severe
Severity
Common — a significant cause of chronic illness and death in India, driven by viral hepatitis, alcohol use, and fatty liver disease
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Hepatology
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Most commonly caused by chronic hepatitis B or C infection
- 2long-term heavy alcohol consumption
- 3and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- 4all of which cause ongoing liver injury and inflammation over many years. Other causes include autoimmune liver diseases
- 5certain inherited metabolic conditions affecting the liver
- 6and chronic bile duct obstruction. In many patients
- 7more than one contributing factor
- 8such as viral hepatitis combined with alcohol use
- 9accelerates the progression to cirrhosis.
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