Risk of chronic liver disease in post-menopausal women due to body mass index, alcohol and their interaction: a prospective nested cohort study within the United Kingdom Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS)

• Main Authors: Paul M Trembling (Author), Sophia Apostolidou (Author), Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj (Author), Julie Parkes (Author), Andy Ryan (Author), Sudeep Tanwar (Author), Matthew Burnell (Author), Ian Jacobs (Author), Usha Menon (Author), William M. Rosenberg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background We investigated the risk of chronic liver disease (CLD) due to alcohol consumption and body mass index (BMI) and the effects of their interaction in a prospective cohort study of women recruited to the UKCTOCS trial. Methods 95,126 post-menopausal women without documented CLD wer...