
The Liver Keeps the Score: Americans Are Drinking Less, but Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease May Lag
Drinking fell for the first time since COVID-19, but not for adults 50 to 64. Hepatologists explain what clinicians can do to close the gap.

Mandana Khalili, MD, is Chief of Clinical Hepatology and Director of Clinical and Translational Research in Hepatology at San Francisco General Hospital, and directs the UCSF T32 Hepatology Training Program.

Drinking fell for the first time since COVID-19, but not for adults 50 to 64. Hepatologists explain what clinicians can do to close the gap.

Mandana Khalili, MD, discusses how baseline motivation predicted alcohol reduction in a stepped treatment trial for liver disease patients.

Telehealth stepped alcohol treatment reduced weekly drinking, but not the primary endpoint, among patients with chronic liver disease.